Translations:Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual/2394/en

-- Returns "foobarbaz" mw.text.truncate( "foobarbaz", 9 ) -- Returns "fooba..." mw.text.truncate( "foobarbaz", 5 ) -- Returns "...arbaz" mw.text.truncate( "foobarbaz", -5 ) -- Returns "foo..." mw.text.truncate( "foobarbaz", 6, nil, true ) -- Returns "foobarbaz", because that's shorter than "foobarba..." mw.text.truncate( "foobarbaz", 8 )