Cropping text strings

ruby-talk
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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)

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

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On 9/17/07, Cryptographic_ICE@yahoo.com <Cryptographic_ICE@yahoo.com> wrote:

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)

--
"Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions speak
so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."

-Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)

4

Rails also has a helper for this:

http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#M00061
5

truncate("Once upon a time in a world far far away", 14)
   => Once upon a...

HTH,

FElix

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-----Original Message-----
From: Glen Holcomb [mailto:damnbigman@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 12:20 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Cropping text strings

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

On 9/17/07, Cryptographic_ICE@yahoo.com > <Cryptographic_ICE@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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)
>
>
>

--
"Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your
actions speak
so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."

-Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)

5

As will the following:

    openjob.ProblemDesc.first(50)

Regards, Morton

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On Sep 17, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Glen Holcomb wrote:

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

On 9/17/07, Cryptographic_ICE@yahoo.com > <Cryptographic_ICE@yahoo.com> wrote:

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)

6

Glen Holcomb wrote:

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

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

Daniel

7

Thank you it worked great!

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On Sep 17, 3:41 pm, Morton Goldberg <m_goldb...@ameritech.net> wrote:

On Sep 17, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Glen Holcomb wrote:

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

> On 9/17/07, Cryptographic_...@yahoo.com > > <Cryptographic_...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> 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

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Good point, I wasn't thinking in Unicode.

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On 9/17/07, Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> wrote:

Glen Holcomb wrote:
> openjob.ProblemDesc[0..49] should do the trick.

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

Daniel

--
"Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions speak
so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."

-Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)

10

Hi,

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

On Sep 17, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Glen Holcomb wrote:

Is there a way to trim it to say the first 50 characters?

As will the following:

   openjob.ProblemDesc.first(50)

Cool. Here are two other ones:

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

Bertram

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Bertram Scharpf
Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany
http://www.bertram-scharpf.de

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# > 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

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From: Glen Holcomb [mailto:damnbigman@gmail.com]
# On 9/17/07, Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> wrote:

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Nice! I won't have to think in Unicode :wink:

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On 9/18/07, Peña, Botp <botp@delmonte-phil.com> wrote:

From: Glen Holcomb [mailto:damnbigman@gmail.com]
# On 9/17/07, Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> wrote:
# > 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

--
"Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions speak
so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."

-Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)