How can I truncate my strings with a “…” if they are too long?

Question

Hope somebody has a good idea. I have strings like this:

abcdefg
abcde
abc

What I need is for them to be trucated to show like this if more

Answer 1

Maybe it is better to implement a method for that purpose:

string shorten(sting yourStr)
{
//Suppose you have a string yourStr, toView and a constant value 

    string toView;
    const int maxView = 3;

    if (yourStr.Length > maxView)
        toView = yourStr.Substring(0, maxView) + " ..."; // all you have is to use Substring(int, int) .net method
    else
        toView = yourStr;
return toView;
}