truncate

I am trying to truncate some long text in C#, but I don't want my string to be cut off part way through a word. Does anyone have a function that I can use to truncate my string at the end of a word? E.g: "This was a long string..." Not: "This was a long st..." Dave Try the following. It is pretty rudimentary. Just finds the first space starting at the desired length. public static string TruncateAtWord(this string value, int length) { if (value == null || value.Length < length || value.IndexOf(" ", length) == -1) return value; return value.Substring(0, value.IndexOf(" ", length)); } TimS

For example, I might want to: tail -f logfile | grep org.springframework | <command to remove first N characters> I was thinking that tr might have the ability to do this but I'm not sure. Use cut . Eg. to strip the first 4 characters of each line (i.e. start on the 5th char): tail -f logfile | grep org.springframework | cut -c 5- sed 's/^.\{5\}//' logfile and you replace 5 by the number you want...it should do the trick... EDIT if for each line sed 's/^.\{5\}//g' logfile Ankur You can use cut : cut -c N- file.txt > new_file.txt -c: characters file.txt: input file new_file.txt: output file N-:

I tried to truncate a table with foreign keys and got the message: " Cannot truncate table because it is being referenced by a FOREIGN KEY constraint ". I read a lot of literature about the problem and thought that I found the solution by using delete DELETE FROM table_name DBCC CHECKIDENT (table_name, RESEED, 0) But I still got an error message: " The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint ". When I try to delete with Microsoft Management Studio and execute the previous query DELETE FROM table_name DBCC CHECKIDENT (table_name, RESEED, 0) it doesn't give an error and works

I'd like to truncate a dynamically loaded string using straight JavaScript. It's a url, so there are no spaces, and I obviously don't care about word boundaries, just characters. Here's what I got: var pathname = document.referrer; //wont work if accessing file:// paths document.getElementById("foo").innerHTML = "<a href='" + pathname +"'>" + pathname +"</a>" Use the substring method: var length = 3; var myString = "ABCDEFG"; var myTruncatedString = myString.substring(0,length); // The value of myTruncatedString is "ABC" So in your case: var length = 3; // set to the number of characters you

I have a UILabel that can be varying lengths depending on whether or not my app is running in portrait or landscape mode on an iPhone or iPad. When the text is too long to show on one line and it truncates I want the user to be able to press it and get a popup of the full text. How can I check to see if the UILabel is truncating the text? Is it even possible? Right now I'm just checking for different lengths based on what mode I'm in but it does not work super well. progrmr You can calculate the width of the string and see if the width is greater than label.bounds.size.width NSString UIKit