Question

I have strings like this:

abcdefg
abcde
abc
jjjj

I need is them trucated to show like this if more than a specified lenght:

abc ..
abc ..
abc
jjj ..

Is there any simple javascript code I can use for this functionality

Answer 1

function truncate(str, len) {
    if(str.length > len) {
        return str.substring(0, len) + ' ..';
    } else {
        return str;
    }
}