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Shorten text class

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Class to shorten text. For example for an article where people can click read more to read the whole article.

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  1. public class CropText
  2. {
  3.     public CropText()
  4.     {
  5.     }
  6.  
  7.     public string ShortenText(string input, int MaxLenght, bool DoDots)
  8.     {
  9.         string result = input;
  10.         int InputLength = input.Length;
  11.  
  12.         string lastChar = result.Substring(result.Length - 1);
  13.  
  14.         if (MaxLenght < InputLength)
  15.         {
  16.             result = input.Substring(0, MaxLenght);
  17.  
  18.             if (lastChar == " ")
  19.             {
  20.                 result = result.Substring(0, result.Length - 1);
  21.             }
  22.  
  23.             if (DoDots)
  24.             {
  25.                 result += "...";
  26.             }
  27.         }
  28.         return result;
  29.     }
  30. }

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