I'm trying to create a simple patch that takes a sentence or word and

only outputs the first 2 and last 2 characters with a symbol like a

dash in between. Like this: "this is a long sentence" = "th-ce". I've

currently trying to use regexp to do this using back references or

substrings but I keep thinking that maybe it would be easier to do

with javascript using the string.charAt method or similar.

I need it to run fast though because it will be updated repeatedly and

I don't know if using JS is the best solution for the rapid updating I

I'm trying to create a simple patch that takes a sentence or word and
only outputs the first 2 and last 2 characters with a symbol like a
dash in between. Like this: "this is a long sentence" = "th-ce". I've
currently trying to use regexp to do this using back references or
substrings but I keep thinking that maybe it would be easier to do
with javascript using the string.charAt method or similar.

I need it to run fast though because it will be updated repeatedly and
I don't know if using JS is the best solution for the rapid updating I
need.


compressing-text-of-x-number-of-characters

> I'm trying to create a simple patch that takes a sentence or word and

> only outputs the first 2 and last 2 characters with a symbol like a

> dash in between. Like this: "this is a long sentence" = "th-ce". I've

> currently trying to use regexp to do this using back references or

> substrings but I keep thinking that maybe it would be easier to do

> with javascript using the string.charAt method or similar.

> I'm trying to create a simple patch that takes a sentence or word and
> only outputs the first 2 and last 2 characters with a symbol like a
> dash in between. Like this: "this is a long sentence" = "th-ce". I've
> currently trying to use regexp to do this using back references or
> substrings but I keep thinking that maybe it would be easier to do
> with javascript using the string.charAt method or similar.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Emmanuel Jourdan

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Emmanuel Jourdan
 wrote:
> On 8 juin 08, at 17:01, Wade wrote:

Compressing text of x number of characters