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I have successfully truncated my short descript ion to X amount and adding a "..." at the end. The problem is that when you truncate to a number of characters, it could cut off a word in the middle. Anyone have any suggestions on how to truncate the short descript ion by a number of characters WITHOUT cutting off a word? What would be cool is if i could truncate by the first or second period. That way i can get atleast 2 sentences in. Either way, by periods or words is fine. This is what currently works below but it cuts of words: Code:
Dim shortdesc as string
shortdesc = p.ShortDescript[b][/b][b][/b]ion
dim trun as string
trun = left(shortdesc, 200) & "..."
litDes.Text = "<div class=""recordshortdescript[b][/b][b][/b]ion"">" & trun & "</div>"
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For period..., do this:
1. use Split string function to split your description based on a period. That will get you an string array of sentences that were delimited by a period.
2. Based on your requirement, join the the array items and display that to the user. If you need to show the first 3 sentences, then you will need to concatenate the first 3 items in the array.
If you want to do it based on words, do the exact same thing but split based on a space character. Again, depending on your requirements, show the number of words by appending them.
Either ways you will want to create a function that returns you the string you want to display. Also, take care of checking if an array item is not null before trying to append it, etc. |
Thanks,
Satya
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