Trim a string based on the string length

Question

I want to trim a string if the length exceeds 10 characters.

Suppose if the string length is 12 (String s=\"abcdafghijkl\"), then the new trimmed string

Answer 1

As usual nobody cares about UTF-16 surrogate pairs. See about them: What are the most common non-BMP Unicode characters in actual use? Even authors of org.apache.commons/commons-lang3

You can see difference between correct code and usual code in this sample:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    //string with FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY symbol
    String s = "abcdafghi\uD83D\uDE02cdefg";
    int maxWidth = 10;
    System.out.println(s);
    //do not care about UTF-16 surrogate pairs
    System.out.println(s.substring(0, Math.min(s.length(), maxWidth)));
    //correctly process UTF-16 surrogate pairs
    if(s.length()>maxWidth){
        int correctedMaxWidth = (Character.isLowSurrogate(s.charAt(maxWidth)))&&maxWidth>0 ? maxWidth-1 : maxWidth;
        System.out.println(s.substring(0, Math.min(s.length(), correctedMaxWidth)));
    }
}