Truncating Strings by Bytes

Question

I create the following for truncating a string in java to a new string with a given number of bytes.

        String truncatedValue = \"\";
        String curren         


        

Answer 1

This one could not be the more efficient solution but works

public static String substring(String s, int byteLimit) {
    if (s.getBytes().length <= byteLimit) {
        return s;
    }

    int n = Math.min(byteLimit-1, s.length()-1);
    do {
        s = s.substring(0, n--);
    } while (s.getBytes().length > byteLimit);

    return s;
}