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When working with text it is convenient and common to want to truncate
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strings to make them fit a desired context. E.g., you might have a menu
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that is only 100px wide and prefer text doesn't wrap so you'd truncate
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it around 15-30 characters, depending on preference and typeface size.
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This is trivial with plain text and substr but with HTML it is somewhat
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difficult because whitespace has fluid significance and open tags that
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are not properly closed destroy well-formedness and can wreck an entire
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layout.
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HTML::Truncate attempts to account for those two problems by padding
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truncation for spacing and entities and closing any tags that remain
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open at the point of truncation.
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WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Truncate/
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