Counting Characters and then replacing end with trailing periods

[comn8u]

If I were to only allow a certain amount of characters in a string, how would I go about replacing the last word with trailing periods(...)?

[alon]

Hi,
This might be a good solution:
Let's say your string is called "oldStr", and you allow 100 characters:

// retrieve the first 100 characters
string newStr = oldStr.Substring(0,100);

// finds the last space
int lastSpace = newStr.LastIndexOf(" ");

/* removes the last characters after the last space, in case the last space wasn't exactly at the end of a word */

if (lastSpace < 99)
newStr = newStr.Substring(0,lastSpace-1)

// add "..." at the end
newStr += "..."

Good Luck