this functionality can be twofold
1. "simple" css hack that will cover fix it instantly :)
http://www.css3.com/css-text-overflow/
2. "hard" way would be count words and if too long (or too many chars)
split at last space in "too much" from right side (oposite side
search)
http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/python/python3/functionscont.html
hope it helps :)
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Jason (spot) Brower <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have some long strings. How do I shorten them with the "..." feature?
> So when I talk on and on it will... :P
> Regards,
> Jason Brower
>
> >
>
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and
I'm not sure about the former."-Albert Einstein
for words in '' clean up forwarded e-mail before forwarding it to your
friends '';do BR=$(($( od -N 2 -t o2 /dev/urandom |grep -v 0000002|cut
-d " " -f 2|cut -b 3) + 1)) ; printf "%0.${BR}s %s\n" ">>>>>"
${words} ;done
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