Came up with this idea after perusing proto.layer51.com. It’s basically a sub-class of String and the 1st method is a reduction method that let’s you feed in a string, a limit and a “there’s more” indicator. Anyways, here’s the code:
class org.thesourcecode.utils.StringUtils extends String { public var theString:String; public function StringUtils( string:String ) { super(); theString = string; } public function reduce( stringLength:Number, trimIndicator:String="..." ):String { var trimmedString:Array = []; if (theString.length < = stringLength) { //just return the string if it's within the "limit" return theString; } var words:Array = theString.split(" "); var numWords:Number = words.length; var ol:Number = 0; var cWord:String; var w:Number; for (w=0; w<numWords; ++w) { cWord=words[w]; var cwl=cWord.length; //check each words length before adding it the output string if ((ol+cwl)<=stringLength) { trimmedString.push( cWord ); ol+=cwl+1; } else break; } return trimmedString.join(" ")+trimIndicator; } }
The easy-install extension can be downloaded here.
Documentation can be found here.
