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Revision: 31076
at August 28, 2010 22:08 by Fogh


Initial Code
public class CropText
{
    public CropText()
    {
    }

    public string ShortenText(string input, int MaxLenght, bool DoDots)
    {
        string result = input;
        int InputLength = input.Length;

        string lastChar = result.Substring(result.Length - 1);

        if (MaxLenght < InputLength)
        {
            result = input.Substring(0, MaxLenght);

            if (lastChar == " ")
            {
                result = result.Substring(0, result.Length - 1);
            }

            if (DoDots)
            {
                result += "...";
            }
        }
        return result;
    }
}

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Initial Description
Class to shorten text. For example for an article where people can click read more to read the whole article.

Initial Title
Shorten text class

Initial Tags
c, text, aspnet

Initial Language
C#