The Scheme standard calls these functions "take" (take the first n elements) andOn Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Richard Jones wrote:String.truncate - truncate a string to a given lengthI call my version procrustes, because it will also pad a string that is too short with an optional padding character (defaults to ' '). In any case, it would be great to see some of these functions added to the standard library so I wouldn't have to tote around my Wdn module...