Function to shrink file path to be more human readable

Question

Is there any function in c# to shink a file path ?

Input: \"c:\\users\\Windows\\Downloaded Program Files\\Folder\\Inside\\example\\file.txt\"

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Answer 1

Jeff Atwood posted a solution to this on his blog and here it is :

[DllImport("shlwapi.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
static extern bool PathCompactPathEx([Out] StringBuilder pszOut, string szPath, int cchMax, int dwFlags);

static string PathShortener(string path, int length)
{
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    PathCompactPathEx(sb, path, length, 0);
    return sb.ToString();
}

It uses the unmanaged function PathCompactPathEx to achieve what you want.