liquorice/gist:1228474

Created September 20, 2011 06:04

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truncate text to nearest word boundry

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gistfile1.rb

	# truncate text without chopping words

	# where d = text to truncate
	# x = maximum amount of characters

	(d.length <= x) ? d : d[0..x].split()[0...-1].join(' ') + '...'

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liquorice commented Sep 20, 2011

my ruby is very weak; would like to see a simpler way of doing this. anyone for golf?

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