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)
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)
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
openjob.ProblemDesc[0…49] should do the trick.
On 9/17/07, [email protected] [email protected]
wrote:
–
“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)
On Sep 17, 3:41 pm, Morton G. [email protected] wrote:
<%=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
Thank you it worked great!
On Sep 17, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Glen H. wrote:
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
On 9/17/07, Daniel DeLorme [email protected] wrote:
Glen H. wrote:
openjob.ProblemDesc[0…49] should do the trick.
Hate to be anal, but that would return the first 50 bytes, not
characters.Daniel
Good point, I wasn’t thinking in Unicode.
–
“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)
Glen H. wrote:
openjob.ProblemDesc[0…49] should do the trick.
Hate to be anal, but that would return the first 50 bytes, not
characters.
Daniel
From: Glen H. [mailto:[email protected]]
ruby1.9 http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?Changes+in+Ruby+1.9#l104
Hi,
Am Dienstag, 18. Sep 2007, 04:41:14 +0900 schrieb Morton G.:
On Sep 17, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Glen H. 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
On 9/18/07, Peña, Botp [email protected] wrote:
From: Glen H. [mailto:[email protected]]
On 9/17/07, Daniel DeLorme [email protected] 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
Nice! I won’t have to think in Unicode
–
“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)
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