Hey @patricia and @eddy: Here’s a way…
This results in:
It should be fairly obvious how this works, but if not, here’s an explanation:
- We first truncate to roughly desired number of characters (105 in my example).
- Because the character in that last position (105) may or may not be whitespace, I :trimmed the truncated string to remove any preceding/trailing whitespace. This ensures that last character is not whitespace.
- Regex operator
\s(\w+)$matches the word at the very end of the string. We replace that by " MORE…" (yes there’s a space before the start of MORE). You could make that whatever you want, of course.
I’m sure this could be improved (like, there’s probably a REGEX that would handle the issue of the end of the string may or may not be whitespace – so perhaps one could get rid of the :trimmed operation), but this was just a quick-and-dirty experiment.
Anyway, solution above will work (and is actually pretty neat!) though it may not be the absolute best solution. I’m sure someone who’s more of a regex nerd could improve this.
-K-