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Diffstat (limited to 'vespajlib/src/main/java/com/yahoo/text/Text.java')
| -rw-r--r-- | vespajlib/src/main/java/com/yahoo/text/Text.java | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/vespajlib/src/main/java/com/yahoo/text/Text.java b/vespajlib/src/main/java/com/yahoo/text/Text.java index 706fd1583a3..85b28639d89 100644 --- a/vespajlib/src/main/java/com/yahoo/text/Text.java +++ b/vespajlib/src/main/java/com/yahoo/text/Text.java @@ -174,4 +174,16 @@ public final class Text { return stripped != null ? stripped.toString() : string; } + /** + * Returns a string which is never larger than the given number of characters. + * If the string is longer than the given length it will be truncated. + * If length is 4 or less the string will be truncated to length. + * If length is longer than 4, it will be truncated at length-4 with " ..." added at the end. + */ + public static String truncate(String s, int length) { + if (s.length() <= length) return s; + if (length <= 4) return s.substring(0, length); + return s.substring(0, length - 4) + " ..."; + } + } |