Truncate strings with ellipsis

When copying data to a place where you can only store or display a limited number of characters, this little function will trim the string to a specified length, adding "..." to show that some characters were removed.

Note: in the LotusScript version of this function, "Byval" is not used for the string

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parameter because we expect this function might be used with longer strings, where the overhead of copying the string might exceed the overhead of referring to the string twice by reference. I haven't actually done timing tests, because the performance difference is likely trivial.