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

A oneliner which of course does not outperform the other offered solutions:

longString.replaceFirst("(.{5}).+(.{5})", "$1...$2")

Will leave only first and last 5 characters and put ... in the middle.