Truncation is a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule that states that merchants must shorten credit and debit card information printed on certain receipts. Truncation is the requirement mandated ...

This week, I will show how to truncate files using the truncate() and ftruncate() syscalls. The file system automatically expands a file’s size as more data is appended to it; however, it has no ...

Left truncation arises when individuals come under observation only some known time after the natural time origin of the phenomenon under study. The risk set just prior to an event time does not ...

The problem with this limitation is that subject text truncation can have undesirable consequences. Imagine a message sent to an AOL user with the subject “(Gardening News) Ready for spring?

It gives banks and other organizations the ability to create electronic images of consumers' checks in a process known as check truncation. The images are then sent to the relevant financial ...