use strict;
use warnings;
use Text::Autoformat;
my $string = 'A lengthy text with more than xxx characters to demonstr
+ate truncate';
print "Before: $string\n";
print 'Length: ' , length($string) , "\n";
my $truncated = &truncate($string,20);
print "After: $truncated\n";
print 'Length: ' , length($truncated) , "\n";
###########################################################
sub truncate {
my $string = shift @_;
my $length = 75;
$length = shift if @_;
$string = autoformat($string, { left => 0,
right => $length ,
widow => 0,
});
($string) = split(/\n/,$string); # Just the first element
return $string;
} ##
###########################################################
Just my two cents.
Hope this helps
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