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Simply Ellipse Long Strings

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Extremely simple... just pass in the string you want to ellipse, and the position you want to do it at. The code takes care of the rest.

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  1. private function ellipsed(fullString:String, cutOff:Number):String
  2. {
  3. 	if(fullString.length < cutOff)
  4. 	{
  5. 	        return fullString;
  6. 	}
  7. 	else
  8. 	{
  9.  
  10.                 var ellipsedString:String = fullString.substr(0, (cutOff - 3));
  11. 		ellipsedString += "...";
  12. 	}
  13.  
  14. 	return ellipsedString;
  15. }

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