ansi_strtrim: Truncate an ANSI string

In RonMobile/cli: Helpers for Developing Command Line Interfaces

Description

This function is similar to base::strtrim(), but works correcntly with ANSI styled strings. It also adds ... (or the corresponding Unicode character if Unicode characters are allowed) to the end of truncated strings.

Usage

ansi_strtrim(x, width = console_width(), ellipsis = symbol$ellipsis)

Arguments

x	Character vector of ANSI strings.
width	The width to truncate to.
ellipsis	The string to append to truncated strings. Supply an empty string if you don't want a marker.

See Also

Other ANSI string operations: ansi_align(), ansi_columns(), ansi_nchar(), ansi_strsplit(), ansi_strwrap(), ansi_substring(), ansi_substr(), ansi_toupper(), ansi_trimws()

Examples

text <- cli::col_red(cli:::lorem_ipsum())
ansi_strtrim(c(text, "foobar"), 40)

RonMobile/cli documentation built on Dec. 18, 2021, 11 a.m.