# trimming the text....

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/trimming-the-text/13266>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [May 22, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/trimming-the-text/13266 "2007-05-22T01:24:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sean\_Allen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sean\_Allen](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Sean_Allen)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/trimming-the-text/13266/1 "2007-05-22T01:24:36Z")

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check the ruby docs for String.

you could use scan or each or index and slice or split

so many choices.

raj wrote:

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**Author:** ![Husein\_Choroomi1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@Husein\_Choroomi1](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Husein_Choroomi1)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/trimming-the-text/13266/2 "2007-05-23T00:20:33Z")

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You might also want to check Rails TextHelper, which has some useful methods like excerpt, truncate, etc for manipulation strings.

[http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html](http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html)

- H