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    <p>I have a Rails site, where the content is written in markdown. I wish to display a snippet of each, with a "Read more.." link.</p> <p>How do I go about this? Simple truncating the raw text will not work, for example..</p> <pre><code>&gt;&gt; "This is an [example](http://example.com)"[0..25] =&gt; "This is an [example](http:" </code></pre> <p>Ideally I want to allow the author to (optionally) insert a marker to specify what to use as the "snippet", if not it would take 250 words, and append "..." - for example..</p> <pre><code>This article is an example of something or other. This segment will be used as the snippet on the index page. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This text will be visible once clicking the "Read more.." link </code></pre> <p>The marker could be thought of like an EOF marker (which can be ignored when displaying the full document)</p> <p>I am using <a href="http://maruku.rubyforge.org/" rel="noreferrer">maruku</a> for the Markdown processing (RedCloth is very biased towards Textile, BlueCloth is extremely buggy, and I wanted a native-Ruby parser which ruled out peg-markdown and RDiscount)</p> <p>Alternatively (since the Markdown is translated to HTML anyway) truncating the HTML correctly would be an option - although it would be preferable to not <code>markdown()</code> the entire document, just to get the first few lines.</p> <p>So, the options I can think of are (in order of preference)..</p> <ul> <li>Add a "truncate" option to the maruku parser, which will only parse the first x words, or till the "excerpt" marker.</li> <li>Write/find a parser-agnostic Markdown truncate'r</li> <li>Write/find an intelligent HTML truncating function</li> </ul>
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    1. COredcarpet is a good solution for a parser, just incase. Not a direct answer to this question but since you have mentioned
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