This seems reasonably straight forward to implement in your own code base: ``` def truncate(string, length, padding \\ ".") do string |> String.slice(0, length) |> String.pad_trailing(String.length(string), padding) end ```
Not seeing a strong need to include it in the standard library. Just my $0.02 On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 2:12:19 PM UTC-5 Kip wrote: > 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/35628c34-c8c4-4558-a985-de87ec7111d3n%40googlegroups.com.
