Richard Suchenwirth 2005-10-04 - "Ellipsis" is Greek for "left out". More specifically it's the name of the character(s) "..." (three ASCII periods, or fancier the Unicode \u2026) indicating that something was left out. When a string is truncated to fit into a given length, the following proc adds an ellipsis where necessary:
proc string'limit {str length} {
expr {[string length $str]>$length?
"[string range $str 0 [incr length -4]]..."
: $str}
}
% string'limit hello 10
hello
string'limit "hello long string" 10
hello l...