Html formatted string -displaying only upto specific length

Ruby
1

Hi

I have a string

str=“

Hgenrik
Lundqvist,ggh nv gnm h fsgfb
gthe preternaturally handsome Swedish goalie for the New
York Rangers, may have been named one of test from Neskdufluh on
december a 2009

”

i want to display this with the html formatting as mentioned above in
the string.
But i want to display only first 15 charatcer.ie 15 characters inclusive
of spaces and other special charac
that is , i want to display HgenrikLundqvis .
But it should be display with all the html formatting as it is in the
string “str”.
please tell me how to display it like this.

2

Subashini K. wrote:

Hi

I have a string

str=“

Hgenrik
Lundqvist,ggh nv gnm h fsgfb
gthe preternaturally handsome Swedish goalie for the New
York Rangers, may have been named one of test from Neskdufluh on
december a 2009

”

i want to display this with the html formatting as mentioned above in
the string.
But i want to display only first 15 charatcer.ie 15 characters inclusive
of spaces and other special charac
that is , i want to display HgenrikLundqvis .
But it should be display with all the html formatting as it is in the
string “str”.
please tell me how to display it like this.

You’ll need to parse the HTML to know where the tags begin and end. Use
a library such as Nokogiri for that.

You could do a quick-and-dirty approach using regular expressions, but
it may not be as reliable.

Best,
–Â
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]