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Created August 6, 2012 07:11
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Truncate Filter for AngularJS v1.0
// add the filter to your application module
angular.module('yourAppName', ['filters']);
/**
* Truncate Filter
* @Param string
* @Param int, default = 10
* @Param string, default = "..."
* @return string
*/
angular.module('filters', []).
filter('truncate', function () {
return function (text, length, end) {
if (isNaN(length))
length = 10;
if (end === undefined)
end = "...";
if (text.length <= length || text.length - end.length <= length) {
return text;
}
else {
return String(text).substring(0, length-end.length) + end;
}
};
});
/**
* Example - see the jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/tUyyx/
*
* var myText = "This is an example.";
*
* {{myText|truncate}}
* {{myText|truncate:5}}
* {{myText|truncate:25:" ->"}}
*
* Output
* "This is..."
* "Th..."
* "This is an e ->"
*
*/
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