Abbreviate string : String format « Data Type « Java

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Java » Data Type » String format Screenshots  Abbreviate string        /**  * $Revision: 10205 $  * $Date: 2008-04-11 15:48:27 -0700 (Fri, 11 Apr 2008) $  *  * Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Jive Software. All rights reserved.  *  * This software is published under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL),  * a copy of which is included in this distribution, or a commercial license  * agreement with Jive.  */ /**  * Utility class to peform common String manipulation algorithms.  */  class StringUtils {     // Constants used by escapeHTMLTags     private static final char[] QUOTE_ENCODE = "&quot;".toCharArray();     private static final char[] AMP_ENCODE = "&amp;".toCharArray();     private static final char[] LT_ENCODE = "&lt;".toCharArray();     private static final char[] GT_ENCODE = "&gt;".toCharArray();     private StringUtils() {         // Not instantiable.     }     /**      * Abbreviates a string to a specified length and then adds an ellipsis      * if the input is greater than the maxWidth. Example input:      * <pre>      *      user1@jivesoftware.com/home      * </pre>      * and a maximum length of 20 characters, the abbreviate method will return:      * <pre>      *      user1@jivesoftware.c...      * </pre>      * @param str the String to abbreviate.      * @param maxWidth the maximum size of the string, minus the ellipsis.      * @return the abbreviated String, or <tt>null</tt> if the string was <tt>null</tt>.      */     public static String abbreviate(String str, int maxWidth) {         if (null == str) {             return null;         }         if (str.length() <= maxWidth) {             return str;         }                  return str.substring(0, maxWidth) + "...";     } }                                  Related examples in the same category 1.  Fmt - format text (like Berkeley UNIX fmt) 2.  Demonstrate some usage patterns and format-code examples of the Formatter 3.  String.format(): right pad a string 4.  String.format(): left pad a string 5.  Format a String (JDK1.5) 6.  Pass value array to String.format() 7.  Format Calendar with String.format() 8.  Abbreviates a String using ellipses in both sides. 9.  Abbreviates a String using ellipses. 10.  Word Wrap 11.  Centers a String in a larger String of size size using the space character (' '). 12.  Centers a String in a larger String of size size. Uses a supplied String as the value to pad the String with. 13.  Centers a String in a larger String of size size. Uses a supplied character as the value to pad the String with. 14.  Capitalize the first character of the given string 15.  Capitalize the first letter but leave the rest as they are. 16.  Capitalizes a String changing the first letter to title case as Character.toTitleCase(char). No other letters are changed. 17.  Format strings into table 18.  Center the contents of the string. 19.  Truncate the supplied string to be no more than the specified length. 20.  Replace, remove, format strings 21.  Adds spaces in suitable locations of the input string 22.  Blank string: empty or white space 23.  Capital and uncapital strings 24.  Capitalizes the first character of the given string 25.  Utilities for String formatting, manipulation, and queries 26.  Fast lower case conversion 27.  Format a percentage for presentation to the user 28.  Left justify the contents of the string, ensuring that the supplied string begins at the first character and that the resulting string is of the desired length. 29.  Transforms words to singular, plural, humanized (human readable), underscore, camel case, or ordinal form 30.  Escapes all necessary characters in the String so that it can be used in SQL 31.  Escapes all necessary characters in the String so that it can be used in an XML doc 32.  Adds zeros to the beginning of a value so that the total length matches the given precision, otherwise trims the right digits. 33.  Right justify string, ensuring that the string ends at the last character 34.  Makes the first letter caps and the rest lowercase. 35.  Quote a string so that it can be used as an identifier or a string literal in SQL statements. 36.  Remove the hyphens from the begining of str and return the new String. 37.  Swaps the case of a String changing upper and title case to lower case, and lower case to upper case. 38.  Uncapitalizes a String changing the first letter to title case as per Character.toLowerCase(char). No other letters are changed. 39.  Capitlize each word in a string (journal titles, etc) 40.  Uncapitalize String 41.  Utility inserts a space before every caps in a string 42.  convert String array To Comma Delimited 43.  Constructs a method name from element's bean name for a given prefix 44.  break Lines 45.  Limit the string to a certain number of characters, adding "..." if it was truncated