Truncate string on whole words in .NET C#

Question

I am trying to truncate some long text in C#, but I don\'t want my string to be cut off part way through a word. Does anyone have a function that I can use to truncate my st

Answer 1

I use this

public string Truncate(string content, int length)
    {
        try
        {
            return content.Substring(0,content.IndexOf(" ",length)) + "...";
        }
        catch
        {
            return content;
        }
    }