Peter Szinek wrote: > I seriously doubt this is part of standard Ruby. You're right, it's not a part of the Ruby standard library: Clifford Heath wrote: > There's no such method in Ruby. You might be thinking of the > truncate method that's part of ActionView's TextHelper module. truncate is what it's called. I was actually searching for 'rails StringHelper'... :) Thanks for the replies! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.