aaaah. i see. is this another case of 'everything is an object'? i need to
wrap my head around the all pervasiveness of what that means in the future.
thanks all.



"Florian Gro <florgro / gmail.com> wrote in message
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> luke wrote:
>
> > i'm looking for something that can take a string and truncate it to a
> > certain amount of characters. then i can add '...' at the end.
> >
> > i used to use substr() when working with php
> >
> >  $str = substr( $str, 0, 200) . "...";
>
> The most correct way of doing this IMHO is this:
>
> str += "..." if str.slice!(200 .. -1)
>
> which will cut away everything after the first 200 characters and append
> a marker if the string was truncated.
>
> Your PHP solution would map to this:
>
> str = str[0, 200] + "..."
>
>
>