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Cutting Of Part Of The Unicode Line

12.01.2006

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        // description of your code here

sub left_subject{
	my $self=shift;
	my $count=shift;
	use utf8;
	my $topic=$self->subject;
	utf8::decode($topic);
	utf8::upgrade($topic);
	my ($subtopic)=($topic=~/(.{0,$count})/);
#	utf8::decode($subtopic);
	$subtopic=~s/\b\w{1,5}$//;
	utf8::downgrade($subtopic);
	return $subtopic.'...';
}

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