[stringtemplate-interest] Truncate string?

[Terence Parr]

  There is nothing built-in (on purpose), however, you can use a  
formatter for this kind of thing. I believe my paper on  
internationalization or maybe the documentation describes how to do  
this.
Ter
On May 19, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Magdalin, Vlad wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Does StringTemplate have a way to truncate strings to a certain  
> amount of characters? For example, in NVelocity, I can do something  
> like this:
>
> $formatter.LimitLen(100, $longText, "...")
>
> If ‘longText’ is longer than 100, only the first 100 will be  
> rendered, and the ellipsis is added at the end.
>
> Anything similar available in StringTemplate?
>
> Thanks,
> Vlad
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