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

Sure, try this one:

public static String ellipsise (String input, int maxLen) {
    if (input == null)
        return null;
    if ((input.length() < maxLen) || (maxLen < 3))
        return input;
    return input.substring (0, maxLen - 3) + "...";
}

This has the advantage of fixing the bug where the King's English is not used properly :-)