This plugin adds few custom methods to String class:
1. **trunc()** to truncate a string to some length.
2. **ellipsis()** to add "..." after the truncation.
3. **clean()** to clean the string content. It normalize all special characters and remove non-text inputs.
Download and extract the zip. Make sure you have grails 2.4.4 set in environment variables. Go to the root of the plugin and run grails compile and then grails maven-install (from release plugin) which would build the plugin artifact for you in you local maven repository if you have one setup. Now just add the following in your BuildConfig.groovy
plugins{
...
runtime ":custom-string:0.1"
...
}
##Usage:
- trunc(int sizeOfString)
"This is a custom method to truncate the string to given size".trunc(20)
//Output: This is a custom met
- ellipsis(int sizeOfString)
"This is a custom method to truncate the string to given size".ellipsis(23)
//Output: This is a custom met...
- clean(): This methods is very helpful when user copy/paste text from MS word/excel or some other editor which can have non text inputs.
String input = "Tĥïŝ ĩš â fůňķŷ Šťŕĭńġ.";
input += "•\tIt will remove all the non text inputs.•\tIt will fill spaces with non text inputs o\t. o\t".clean()
//Output: This is a funky String. It will remove all the non text inputs. It will fill spaces with non text inputs .
All the above methods can be used on String variables and on GStrings.