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I got this function: function shorter($text, $chars_limit) { if (strlen($text) > $chars_limit) return substr($text, 0, strrpos(substr($text, 0, $chars_limit), " ")).'...'; else return $text; } and if I use echo shorter($input, 11) it works ok, but if there are some white spaces in the input, otherwise for the input looking like: wwwwwwwwwww The function will change this into: ... (3 dots). I wan't it to be changed into something like this: www ... Have you got any ideas how to rebuild this script? Thank you in advance. Im assuming you just want to take an input. If it is longer than X then cut

I need to take pairs of bytes in, and output shorts, and take shorts in and output pairs of bytes. Here are the functions i've devised for such a purpose: static short ToShort(short byte1, short byte2) { short number = (short)byte2; number <<= 4; number += (short)byte1; return number; } static void FromShort(short number, out byte byte1, out byte byte2) { byte byte2 = (byte)(number >> 4); short tempByte = (short)byte2 << 4; byte byte1 = (byte)(number - tempByte); } I think this is correct but i'm not sure. If this isn't the right way to do it, what is? is there a way to do this already in the

I read that JVM stores internally short, integer and long as 4 bytes. I read it from an article from the year 2000, so I don't know how true it is now. For the newer JVMs, is there any performance gain in using short over integer/long? And did that part of the implementation has changed since 2000? Thanks JonH long 64 –9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 9 ,223,372,036,854,775,807 int 32 –2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647 short 16 –32,768 to 32,767 byte 8 –128 to 127 Use what you need, I would think shorts are rarely used due to the small range and it is in big-endian format. Any performance gain would

Why can I do this: short a = 5; But not this: void setNum(short a); setNum(5); It throws: Possible lossy conversion from int to short I understand that 5 is an integer literal and you have to cast it. I also understand that if the value is not a constant then is obvious that it needs to throw that error because maybe the value reaches the limit of a short type. But why if the compiler knows I'm passing a constant that a short can hold (as in the assignment) it doesn't let it compile? I mean, what is the difference between them? In order to understand why the assignment type-conversion works

Using Ruby, how do I convert the short URLs (tinyURL, bitly etc) to the corresponding long URLs? I don't use Ruby but the general idea is to send an HTTP HEAD request to the server which in turn will return a 301 response (Moved Permanently) with the Location header which contains the URI. HEAD /5b2su2 HTTP/1.1 Host: tinyurl.com Accept: */* RESPONSE: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://stackoverflow.com Content-type: text/html Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 18:58:24 GMT Server: TinyURL/1.6 This is much faster than opening the actual URL and you don't really want to fetch the redirected URL