truncating strings

[Seebs]

On 2011-08-23, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> Ah -- that's only part of it -- the OP wants '...' to print as well.  :)

Ohhhh.  Hmm.

That's harder.  I can't think of a pretty way, so I think I'd probably
write a "prettytrunc(string, len)" or something similar.

-s
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