Comments on: Shortening strings to a fixed length in JavaScript http://www.wait-till-i.com/2006/08/25/shortening-strings-to-a-fixed-length-in-javascript/ Chris Heilmann - Accessibility, Web Development and Pragmatism - can talk, will travel Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:02:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: max http://www.wait-till-i.com/2006/08/25/shortening-strings-to-a-fixed-length-in-javascript/#comment-5608 max Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:10:12 +0000 #comment-5608 thanks for sharing! thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Steve Webster http://www.wait-till-i.com/2006/08/25/shortening-strings-to-a-fixed-length-in-javascript/#comment-3080 Steve Webster Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:11:02 +0000 #comment-3080 You can also do this with a regular expression and the String.replace method in a singe line of code: str.replace(new RegExp("^(.{0," + n + "}\\b).*"), "$1"); The benefit of using a regular expression is that you aren't just limited to spaces separating words. The above regex will work with any character that the regular expression engine considers to be the end of a word (i.e. punctuation (other than hyphen), whitespace, etc) You can also do this with a regular expression and the String.replace method in a singe line of code:

str.replace(new RegExp(”^(.{0,” + n + “}\\b).*”), “$1″);

The benefit of using a regular expression is that you aren’t just limited to spaces separating words. The above regex will work with any character that the regular expression engine considers to be the end of a word (i.e. punctuation (other than hyphen), whitespace, etc)

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