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Analogs of SRFI-13 string-trim, truncates the output of the <format>s to force it in under <width> columns. As soon as any of the <format>s exceed <width>, stop formatting and truncate the result, returning control to whoever called trim. If <width> is not exceeded has no effect.

If a truncation ellipse is set (e.g. with the ellipses procedure below), then when any truncation occurs trim and trim/left will append and prepend the ellipse, respectively. trim/both will both prepend and append. The length of the ellipse will be considered when truncating the original string, so that the total width will never be longer than <width>.

(fmt #f (ellipses "..." (trim 5 "abcde")))

=> "abcde"

(fmt #f (ellipses "..." (trim 5 "abcdef")))

=> "ab..."