Hi Bod,

Making use of Template's EVAL_PERL constructor option : 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Template;

my $tt = Template->new({ EVAL_PERL => 1 });

my $str = 'This is too verbose to be printed in its entirety';
     # 16 characters here ^

$tt->process(\*DATA, { string => $str }) || die $tt->error;

__DATA__
Original  string : [% string %]
Formatted string : [%- PERL -%]
    if ( length '[%- string -%]' > 16 ) {
        (my $truncated = '[%- string -%]') =~ s/^(.{0,16}\b).*$/$1.../
+s;
        print $truncated;
    }
    else {
        print '[% string %]';
    }
[%- END -%]

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Output: 
Original  string : This is too verbose to be printed in its entirety
Formatted string : This is too ...

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Hope this helps!


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: Splitting long text for Template by 1nickt
in thread Splitting long text for Template by Bod

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