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Truncate On Word Boundary

       

/*
   Open Intel 
   Copyright  2011  ISC. All Rights Reserved.
*/
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Windows.Media;
namespace OI.Framework
{
    public static class Utility
    {
        public static string TruncateOnWordBoundary(this string str, int maxChars)
        {
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(str))
            {
                char[] chars = { ' ' };
                string[] words = str.Split(chars, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

                var sb = new StringBuilder();
                int count = 0;

                foreach (var word in words)
                {
                    count += (word.Length + 1);
                    if (count > maxChars)
                    {
                        sb.Append("...");
                        break;
                    }
                    sb.Append(word + ' ');
                }
                return sb.ToString();
            }
            return "";
        }


    }
}

   
    
    
    
    
    
    
  








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