Well, my entire plugin was a whopping 20 lines, but yeah, this [% listing.description | truncate(20) %]
is perfect for me. Yeah, a friend here at work actually has the book, and I have been borrowing it for weeks, but just haven't taken time to read it with much diligence. I have been through much of the docs online, but guess I missed my new best friend, truncate. Or maybe just thought, well, I could do that in 20 lines if I ever really needed to :) Thanks, Earl > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:templates- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 2:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Templates] a little text formatting > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:24:14PM -0700, Cahill, Earl wrote: > > Wow, it even uses '...' by default. I am not a huge fan of filters > though, > > just cause of the need of an [% END %].o > > Then you want to embed the filter in the line of your variable. > > [% MyText FILTER truncate(25) %] # MyText is your variable holding text > > Or the more compact > [% MyText | truncate(25) %] > > Of course, that won't help you if your text is not in a variable. > > -- > Brett Sanger/Swiftone > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > templates mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates _______________________________________________ templates mailing list [email protected] http://lists.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates
