Cropping text strings

[Cryptographic_ICE]

Hello,

This statement here can return a very long paragraph
<%=h openjob.ProblemDesc %>

Is there a way to trim it to say the first 50 characters? In VBScript
I would use Left(). (I am working in ruby on rails if that matters)

 

[Rob Biedenharn]

 

[Morton Goldberg]

openjob.ProblemDesc[0..49] should do the trick.

Hello,

This statement here can return a very long paragraph
<%=h openjob.ProblemDesc %>

Is there a way to trim it to say the first 50 characters? In VBScript
I would use Left(). (I am working in ruby on rails if that matters)

As will the following:

openjob.ProblemDesc.first(50)

Regards, Morton

 

[Cryptographic_ICE]

openjob.ProblemDesc[0..49] should do the trick.

On 9/17/07, (e-mail address removed)

As will the following:

openjob.ProblemDesc.first(50)

Regards, Morton

Thank you it worked great!

 

[Daniel DeLorme]

openjob.ProblemDesc[0..49] should do the trick.

Hate to be anal, but that would return the first 50 *bytes*, not characters.

Daniel

 

[Rob Biedenharn]

 

[Peña, Botp]

From: Glen Holcomb [mailto:[email protected]]=20
# > Hate to be anal, but that would return the first 50 *bytes*, not
# > characters.
# Good point, I wasn't thinking in Unicode.

ruby1.9 http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?Changes+in+Ruby+1.9#l104

 

[Bertram Scharpf]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, 18. Sep 2007, 04:41:14 +0900 schrieb Morton Goldberg:

As will the following:

openjob.ProblemDesc.first(50)

Cool. Here are two other ones:

openjob.ProblemDesc[ 0, 50]
openjob.ProblemDesc[ /.{50}/u]

Bertram