From 543a1cd4d74aff3ca679097cf30176e69ffb3480 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Rogers <lukeroge@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 19:52:38 +1200
Subject: [PATCH] added alternate truncate method

---
 plugins/util/text.py | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/plugins/util/text.py b/plugins/util/text.py
index 8e5c8a0..2d32cd6 100755
--- a/plugins/util/text.py
+++ b/plugins/util/text.py
@@ -95,6 +95,24 @@ def multiword_replace(text, wordDic):
     return rc.sub(translate, text)
 
 
+def truncate_words(content, length=10, suffix='...'):
+    "Truncates a string after a certain number of words."
+    nmsg = content.split(" ")
+    out = None
+    x = 0
+    for i in nmsg:
+        if x <= length:
+            if out:
+                out = out + " " + nmsg[x]
+            else:
+                out = nmsg[x]
+        x = x + 1
+    if x <= length:
+        return out
+    else:
+        return out + suffix
+
+
 # from <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/250357/smart-truncate-in-python>
 def truncate_str(content, length=100, suffix='...'):
     "Truncates a string after a certain number of chars."