shorten: Shorten long names
In michelletran/bsts: Bayesian Structural Time Series

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Removes common prefixes and suffixes from character vectors.

1	Shorten(words)

words

A character vector to be shortened.

The argument words is returned, after common prefixes and suffixes have been removed. If all arguments are identical then no shortening is done.

Steven L. Scott steve.the.bayesian@gmail.com

bsts.mixed.

  Shorten(c("/usr/common/foo.tex", "/usr/common/barbarian.tex"))
  # returns c("foo", "barbarian")

  Shorten(c("hello", "hellobye"))
  # returns c("", "bye")

  Shorten(c("hello", "hello"))
  # returns c("hello", "hello")

  Shorten(c("", "x", "xx"))
  # returns c("", "x", "xx")

  Shorten("abcde")
  # returns "abcde"