[LANG-338] truncateNicely method which avoids truncating in the middle of a word

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.4
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: matt humphreys
• Created: 06/Jun/07 15:28
• Updated: 23/Jan/11 05:29
• Resolved: 13/Nov/07 18:05

Description

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