Here you can find the source of truncateNicely(String s, int n, String suffix)
public static String truncateNicely(String s, int n, String suffix)
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************** Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Steven E. Hugg.//from w w w . j a v a2 s.c o m This file is part of FLCore. FLCore is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. FLCore is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with FLCore. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. *********************************************************************/ public class Main { /** * Nicely truncate a string. * Truncates s to n chars breaking s on whitespace, * and adding a 'suffix' to the end. */ public static String truncateNicely(String s, int n, String suffix) { int l = s.length(); if (s.length() <= n) return s; int sufflen = suffix.length(); for (int i = n - sufflen; i > 0; i--) { char ch = s.charAt(i); if (Character.isWhitespace(ch)) { return s.substring(0, i) + suffix; } } int p = n - suffix.length(); if (p > 0) return s.substring(0, p) + suffix; else return suffix.substring(0, n); } }