Coding efficiency

[MiniMe]

is there a way to combine these statements to be more efficient??
<strlen $TITLE>
< if $ret gt 50>
<substr $TITLE 0 50>
<sum "%s" $ret "...">
$ret
</if>

to something like
<sum "%s" <substr $TITLE 0 50> "...">
$ret


Don't ask me why.. one of our perl developers asked..

M.

[mark]

No need to check first. The following is that same as what you propose:
<substr $TITLE 0 50>
<sum "%s" $ret "...">

[John]

If you only wanted to put the ... after titles longer than 50 you could also do something like:

<sandr ".{50}.+" "\1..." $TITLE>
$ret