What method in the String class returns only the first N characters?

Question

I\'d like to write an extension method to the String class so that if the input string to is longer than the provided length N, only the first

Answer 1

Simply:

public static String Truncate(String input,int maxLength)
{
   if(input.Length > maxLength)
      return input.Substring(0,maxLength);
   return input;
}