Using javascript substring() to create a read more link

Question

I\'m developing a Classic ASP page that pulls some content from a database and creates a Read more link after the first 100 characters as follows;

Answer 1

var cutoff = 100;
var text = $('div.contentdetail').text();
var rest = text.substring(cutoff);
if (text.length > cutoff) {
  var period = rest.indexOf('.');
  var space = rest.indexOf(' ');
  cutoff += Math.max(Math.min(period, space), 0);
}
// Assign the rest again, because we recalculated the cutoff
rest = text.substring(cutoff);
var visibleText = $('div.contentdetail').text().substring(0, cutoff);

EDIT: shortened it a bit. EDIT: Fixed a bug EDIT: QoL improvement