Re: truncate string after x characters

2007-08-20 Thread Ceph
{{ post.subject|slice:":15"|escape }} does the job. On Aug 20, 6:55 am, patrickk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks. > > since truncatewords and truncatewords_html are predefined filters, I > guess that truncate should also be one (just my opinion). > > patrick > > On 20 Aug., 12:33, Malcolm Tre

Re: truncate string after x characters

2007-08-20 Thread patrickk
thanks. since truncatewords and truncatewords_html are predefined filters, I guess that truncate should also be one (just my opinion). patrick On 20 Aug., 12:33, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 11:52 +0200, patrickk wrote: > > how do I truncate a string (in

Re: truncate string after x characters

2007-08-20 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 11:52 +0200, patrickk wrote: > how do I truncate a string (in the template) after a certain amount > of characters? > I know there´s a truncate-filter, but it works with words and not > characters. There's #5025 in Trac. This shouldn't be seen as any endorsement for th

Re: truncate string after x characters

2007-08-20 Thread Stefan Matthias Aust
2007/8/20, patrickk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > how do I truncate a string (in the template) after a certain amount > of characters? It's not difficult to create custom filters. For example from django.template import Library register = Library() @register.filter def truncate(value, arg): try:

truncate string after x characters

2007-08-20 Thread patrickk
how do I truncate a string (in the template) after a certain amount of characters? I know there´s a truncate-filter, but it works with words and not characters. thanks, patrick --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go