Show HN: UI pattern for truncating long integers/strings in tables

Re:Show HN: UI pattern for truncating long integers/strings ... by jessekorzan on Thursday March 01, 2018 @04:57PM (#16496764)

Nice eye. Thanks for this... good enhancement. A good option for display, as it depends on what kind of numbers are being displayed and compared (fractions vs. big whole numbers).

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Re:Show HN: UI pattern for truncating long integers/strings ... by kwillets on Thursday March 01, 2018 @07:46PM (#16497845)

In my case I was thinking of long strings such as SQL queries. We would show a few initial words, but in SQL they're typically the same.

For example:

    select sum(sales) from tablexyz where region = 'West'             
    select sum(sales) from tablexyz where region = 'South'

In this case I think we want the distinguishing word or token, and we can fill the remaining space with text from the left, eg "select sum(sales)..'South'".

I could write out some javascript for this, but IANA front-end or css expert.

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