Automatically ellipsize a string in Java

Question

Is there a method in Java to automatically ellipsize a string? Just in Java, not other libraries.

Thanks.

Answer 1

There is not. But here's another crack at a simple method to do this.

String ellipsize(String input, int maxLength) {
  if (input == null || input.length() < maxLength) {
    return input;
  }
  return input.substring(0, maxLength) + "...";
}