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Henri Yandell edited comment on LANG-338 at 1/23/11 12:29 AM: -------------------------------------------------------------- Noting that LANG-673 noticed that StringUtils already had an abbreviate method. This (WordUtils.abbreviate) has been removed for LANG 3.0. was (Author: bayard): Noting that LANG-673 noticed that StringUtils already had an abbreviate method. This has been removed for LANG 3.0. > truncateNicely method which avoids truncating in the middle of a word > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: LANG-338 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-338 > Project: Commons Lang > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: matt humphreys > Priority: Trivial > Fix For: 2.4 > > Attachments: LANG-338-cleaned.patch, LANG-338.patch > > > as provided by jakarta string taglib. It would be good if this was part of > commons as it doesn't make sense to use a taglib jar for non-web projects. > The taglib javadoc says: > "...It will search for the first space after the lower limit and truncate the > string there. It will also append any string passed as a parameter to the end > of the string. The hard limit can be specified to forcibily truncate a string > (in the case of an extremely long word or such)..." > http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/string-doc/string-1.1.0/javadoc/org/apache/taglibs/string/util/StringW.html -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.