Shorten Path name

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Tony Maresca

Is there any framework function or code floating
around that someone knows of, that can take a long
path name and remove the middle parts to make it
fit in a given field of characters for display in my UI?

Thanks,

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Tony M.
 
Not sure exactly what you mean, but if you wanted - say...

C:\SomeFolder\SubFolderOne\SubSubFolderOne\File.txt

to appear as:

C:\SomeFolder\...File.txt

You could use the string objects methods to concatinate the Left N
characters with "..." and the Right N characters.

There could be several ways to do this, but mostly it comes down to
simple string manipulation.
 
Tony Maresca said:
Is there any framework function or code floating
around that someone knows of, that can take a long
path name and remove the middle parts to make it
fit in a given field of characters for display in my UI?
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If you're just worried about displaying the shortened string (i.e. you don't
need to actually know which characters have been removed) then you could try
Graphics.DrawString, using a StringFormat object whose Trimming property is
set to StringTrimming.EllipsisPath.

Chris Jobson
 
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