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/ truncateWallOfTextMeaningfully.js
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Truncate a wall of text meaningfully.
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| var truncateWallOfTextMeaningfully = function (text, lineLength = 50, numOfLines = 5, splitChar = ". ") { | |
| return text | |
| .split(splitChar) | |
| .map( | |
| function (sentence) { | |
| return sentence | |
| .trim() | |
| .substring(0, lineLength) | |
| + "..." | |
| }) |