On Jan 6, 3:35 am, Subashini Kumar <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Hi > > I have a string > > str="<p>H<span style="font-family: impact,chicago;">g</span>enrik > Lundqvist,g<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">gh nv <span > style="font-family: wingdings,zapf dingbats;">gnm h fsgfb > g</span></span>the preternaturally handsome Swedish goalie for the New > York Rangers, may have been named one of test from Neskdufluh on > december <span style="font-family: symbol;">a</span> 2009</p>" > > i want to display this with the html formatting as mentioned above in > the string. > But i want to display only first 15 charatcer.ie 15 characters inclusive > of spaces and other special charac > that is , i want to display HgenrikLundqvis . > But it should be display with all the html formatting as it is in the > string "str". > please tell me how to display it like this.
I don't think what you're looking for is even possible in general: you'd need to first parse the entire HTML string, find "15 characters" and then put the formatting back on. That's not even including the possibility of devious stuff like this: A string with <span style="display:none">hidden bits</span>. The first 15 *visible* characters here are "A string with .", but unless you're parsing the CSS as well, you'd end up producing "A string with h". Finally, fixed character truncation can be tricky; does the client *really* want to see "Foo Bar Baz Association" truncated to 15 characters? :) --Matt Jones
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