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Re: Truncate strings in array

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From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Truncate strings in array
Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 12:22:18 +0200
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# sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx / 2016-05-22 09:20:10 +0200:
> having array of strings, is it possible to nicely truncate the strings
> to given length? Could iterate the array and do truncation, but maybe
> there's a one liner?

print -l ${strings/(#m)*/$MATCH[1,30]}

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roman

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