That is comes from Laravel, not PHP core may be an indication it is better implemented in a library? If there is momentum towards adding it to the String module I think `String.truncate` would feel more natural to me (its also what Ruby uses).
Its difficult to make guarantees about the printable width though since characters like ZWJ and Bidi text would mean that to do this properly is not a simple or straight forward situation. For that reason I don't personally think it belongs in Elixir itself. On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 5:20:21 PM UTC+1 hassanr...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi all, > I came across from laravel <https://laravel.com> framework, where there > are a lot of useful functions, I miss those functions in Elixir, One of the > functions is called limit > <https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/helpers#method-str-limit> function, I would > like to have that in elixir. > ``` > iex> String.limit("elixir", 3) > "eli..." > > iex> String.limit("elixir", 7) > "elixir" > > iex> String.limit("elixir", 3, "***") > "eli***" > ``` > This function would be really helpful with longer string, we can limit > long string with some trailing string like (...). > > What do you think? If yes what should be the name you suggest? > > Thanks, > Hassan > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/11ad4ce2-27ec-4689-b839-3fcaed21974bn%40googlegroups.com.
