NAME

Template::Plugin::TruncateByWord - A Template Toolkit filter to truncate not the number of bytes but characters

SYNOPSIS

# result is 'ab'
[% USE TruncateByWord %]
[% 'abcdefg' | truncate_by_word(2) %]

# result is 'abc....'
[% USE TruncateByWord %]
[% FILTER truncate_by_word(3,'....') %]
abcdefg
[% END %]

# default charset = 'utf8'. you can change this.
# result is 'abcd'
[% USE TruncateByWord 'euc-jp' %]
[% FILTER truncate_by_word(4) %]
abcdefg
[% END %]

DESCRIPTION

Template::Plugin::TruncateByWord is a filter plugin for Template Toolkit which truncate text not the number of bytes but the number of characters.

BUGS

If found, please Email me. I tested utf8, euc-jp, shiftjis, 7bit-jis, big5, and euc-kr. Please send me more test cases.

SEE ALSO

Template, Template::Plugin::Filter, and t/*.t

AUTHOR

User & KAWABATA Kazumichi (Higemaru) <kawabata@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2008- KAWABATA Kazumichi

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.