有时文件名是编号的，其中索引可能在开头或结尾。所以我想从弦的中心开始缩短:

function stringTruncateFromCenter(str, maxLength) {
    const midChar = "…";      // character to insert into the center of the result
    var left, right;

    if (str.length <= maxLength) return str;

    // length of beginning part      
    left = Math.ceil(maxLength / 2);

    // start index of ending part   
    right = str.length - Math.floor(maxLength / 2) + 1;   

    return str.substr(0, left) + midChar + str.substring(right);
}

请注意，我在这里使用了UTF-8中超过1个字节的填充字符。

我对Kooilnc的解决方案投了赞成票。非常好的紧凑解决方案。有一个小的边缘情况，我想解决。如果有人出于某种原因输入了一个很长的字符序列，它不会被截断:

function truncate(str, n, useWordBoundary) {
    var singular, tooLong = str.length > n;
    useWordBoundary = useWordBoundary || true;

    // Edge case where someone enters a ridiculously long string.
    str = tooLong ? str.substr(0, n-1) : str;

    singular = (str.search(/\s/) === -1) ? true : false;
    if(!singular) {
      str = useWordBoundary && tooLong ? str.substr(0, str.lastIndexOf(' ')) : str;
    }

    return  tooLong ? str + '…' : str;
}

以下是我的解决方案，与其他建议相比有一些改进:

String.prototype.truncate = function(){
    var re = this.match(/^.{0,25}[\S]*/);
    var l = re[0].length;
    var re = re[0].replace(/\s$/,'');
    if(l < this.length)
        re = re + "&hellip;";
    return re;
}

// "This is a short string".truncate();
"This is a short string"

// "Thisstringismuchlongerthan25characters".truncate();
"Thisstringismuchlongerthan25characters"

// "This string is much longer than 25 characters and has spaces".truncate();
"This string is much longer&hellip;"

It:

在25之后的第一个空格上截断 字符 扩展JavaScript字符串对象， 因此它可以用于(并链接到) 任何字符串。 如果截断将修剪字符串 结果在一个尾随空间中; 是否添加unicode hellip实体 (省略号)如果截断的字符串长于25个字符

最好的函数。归功于文本省略。

function textEllipsis(str, maxLength, { side = "end", ellipsis = "..." } = {}) {
  if (str.length > maxLength) {
    switch (side) {
      case "start":
        return ellipsis + str.slice(-(maxLength - ellipsis.length));
      case "end":
      default:
        return str.slice(0, maxLength - ellipsis.length) + ellipsis;
    }
  }
  return str;
}

例子:

var short = textEllipsis('a very long text', 10);
console.log(short);
// "a very ..."

var short = textEllipsis('a very long text', 10, { side: 'start' });
console.log(short);
// "...ng text"

var short = textEllipsis('a very long text', 10, { textEllipsis: ' END' });
console.log(short);
// "a very END"

修正Kooilnc的解决方案:

String.prototype.trunc = String.prototype.trunc ||
  function(n){
      return this.length>n ? this.substr(0,n-1)+'…' : this.toString();
  };

如果不需要截断string对象，则返回string值而不是string对象。

我最近不得不这样做，最后得到:

/**
 * Truncate a string over a given length and add ellipsis if necessary
 * @param {string} str - string to be truncated
 * @param {integer} limit - max length of the string before truncating
 * @return {string} truncated string
 */
function truncate(str, limit) {
    return (str.length < limit) ? str : str.substring(0, limit).replace(/\w{3}$/gi, '...');
}

对我来说感觉很好很干净:)