NAME
    Text::Truncate - Perl module with simple string truncating routine

REQUIREMENTS
    This module only uses standard modules. It should run on Perl 5.005.

  Installation

    Installation is pretty standard:

      perl Makefile.PL
      make
      make test
      make install

SYNOPSIS
      use Text::Truncate;

      my $long_string = "This is a very long string";

      # outputs "This is..."
      print truncstr( $long_string, 10);

DESCRIPTION
    This is a simple, no-brainer subroutine to truncate a string and add an
    optional cutoff marker (defaults to ``...'').

    More details are in the POD.

LICENSE
    This module is in the public domain. No copyright is claimed.

AUTHOR
    Robert Rothenberg <rrwo@cpan.org>