Best way to shorten UTF8 string based on byte length

Question

A recent project called for importing data into an Oracle database. The program that will do this is a C# .Net 3.5 app and I\'m using the Oracle.DataAccess connection libra

Answer 1

This is another solution based on binary search:

public string LimitToUTF8ByteLength(string text, int size)
{
    if (size <= 0)
    {
        return string.Empty;
    }

    int maxLength = text.Length;
    int minLength = 0;
    int length = maxLength;

    while (maxLength >= minLength)
    {
        length = (maxLength + minLength) / 2;
        int byteLength = Encoding.UTF8.GetByteCount(text.Substring(0, length));

        if (byteLength > size)
        {
            maxLength = length - 1;
        }
        else if (byteLength < size)
        {
            minLength = length + 1;
        }
        else
        {
            return text.Substring(0, length); 
        }
    }

    // Round down the result
    string result = text.Substring(0, length);
    if (size >= Encoding.UTF8.GetByteCount(result))
    {
        return result;
    }
    else
    {
        return text.Substring(0, length - 1);
    }
}