On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:22:52PM -0700, Roubart Capcap wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On some of my PDF files, I have table contents.  Since I use
> StoreDescription, part of the table of contents are stored as
> swishdescription shown below:
> Introduction........................................................................................................... 
> i Disclaimer
> ............................................................................................................. 
> However, the length of it exceeds my HTML tables.  Is there a way to
> set the wrapping length of the swishdescription?  I am using the
> Template-Toolkit, so I was thinking of using the "remove" function to
> remove the "." but I can not seem to make it work.  I would appreciate
> any help you can give.  Thank you.

Can you use HTML or CSS to limit the width?

Anyway, here's how you can probably do it in the SWISH/TemplateToolkit 
module:

Right below this line:

    die $Template->error() unless $Template;

Try this:

    $Template->context->define_filter(
        'remove_repeat_chars',
        sub {
           my $text = shift;
           $text =~ s/(.)\1{3,}/$1$1$1/g;
           return $text;
        }
    );

That adds a new "Filter" into Template Toolkit.  Then modify the output 
of swishdescription to be:

       [% item.swishdescription | remove_repeat_chars %]

Now, that matches any character that's repeated.  If you only want to 
match real dots then backslash the dot:

           $text =~ s/(\.)\1{3,}/$1$1$1/g;

or better written:

           $text =~ s/\.{4,}/.../g;

Post again if you want any of that explained more.

-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org