How to get a substring of text?
Use String#slice
, also aliased as []
.
a = "hello there"
a[1] #=> "e"
a[1,3] #=> "ell"
a[1..3] #=> "ell"
a[6..-1] #=> "there"
a[6..] #=> "there" (requires Ruby 2.6+)
a[-3,2] #=> "er"
a[-4..-2] #=> "her"
a[12..-1] #=> nil
a[-2..-4] #=> ""
a[/[aeiou](.)\1/] #=> "ell"
a[/[aeiou](.)\1/, 0] #=> "ell"
a[/[aeiou](.)\1/, 1] #=> "l"
a[/[aeiou](.)\1/, 2] #=> nil
a["lo"] #=> "lo"
a["bye"] #=> nil
Since you tagged it Rails, you can use truncate:
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#method-i-truncate
Example:
truncate(@text, :length => 17)
Excerpt is nice to know too, it lets you display an excerpt of a text Like so:
excerpt('This is an example', 'an', :radius => 5)
# => ...s is an exam...
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#method-i-excerpt
if you need it in rails you can use first (source code)
'1234567890'.first(5) # => "12345"
there is also last (source code)
'1234567890'.last(2) # => "90"
alternatively check from/to (source code):
"hello".from(1).to(-2) # => "ell"
If you have your text in your_text
variable, you can use:
your_text[0..29]