Java String Shorten shorten(String str, int length)

Description

shorten

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static String shorten(String str, int length) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**// ww  w  . j a  v  a 2  s.  c  o m
 * Copyright 2016 Pascal
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

public class Main {
    public static String shorten(String str, int length) {
        if (length < 3) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid length");
        }
        String s;
        if (str.length() <= length) {
            s = str;
        } else {
            s = str.substring(0, length - 3) + "...";
        }
        s = s.replaceAll("[\\r\\n]+", " ");
        s = s.replaceAll("\\s+", " ");
        return s;
    }
}

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