jadjoubran/laravel5-angular-material-starter

export function TruncatCharactersFilter() {
    return function(input, chars, breakOnWord) {
        if (isNaN(chars)) {
            return input;
        }
        if (chars <= 0) {
            return '';
        }
        if (input && input.length > chars) {
            input = input.substring(0, chars);

            if (!breakOnWord) {
                var lastspace = input.lastIndexOf(' ');
                // Get last space
                if (lastspace !== -1) {
                    input = input.substr(0, lastspace);
                }
            } else {
                while (input.charAt(input.length - 1) === ' ') {
                    input = input.substr(0, input.length - 1);
                }
            }
            return input + '...';
        }
        return input;
    };
}