Re: [Templates] a little text formatting

> A start with a line, say

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* Cahill, Earl <ecahill at corp.untd.com> [2005/03/15 14:09]:
> A start with a line, say
>=20
> This line is really too long.
>=20
> A length, say 25, and suffix, say '...'.  I would like to be able to do
> something like this
>=20
> [% my_truncate(line, 25, '...') %]
>=20
> And end up with=20
>=20
> This line is really t...
>=20
> Just wondering if there is something out there that already does this.

The standard truncate filter does this:

  $ tpage=20
  [% FILTER truncate(25) %]
  This line is really too long.
  [% END %]

  This line is really t...

See L<Template::Manual::Filters> for details.

(darren)

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