Subject: Re: [xsl] Algorithm for splitting a string at a space From: "Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 22:12:04 -0000 |
On Mon, 2015-11-23 at 19:05 +0000, Rick Quatro rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello, > > I have a series of strings that I need to split if they are longer > than a > particular length, say 30 characters. But I need to make the split at > the > previous space. What I do is something like, (1) use substring to truncate at 30 characters (2) remove a trailing space and any number of not-space characters B B with replace() (3) if there's nothing left, use the first 27 characters followd by ... or b&B That's probably the same as David's algorithm in effect. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin <liam@xxxxxx> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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