Long path with ellipsis in the middle [duplicate]

Answer 1

This works

    // Specify max width of resulting file name
    const int MAX_WIDTH = 50;

    // Specify long file name
    string fileName = @"A:\LongPath\CanBe\AnyPathYou\SpecifyHere.txt";

    // Find last '\' character
    int i = fileName.LastIndexOf('\\');

    string tokenRight = fileName.Substring(i, fileName.Length - i);
    string tokenCenter = @"\...";
    string tokenLeft = fileName.Substring(0, MAX_WIDTH-(tokenRight.Length + tokenCenter.Length));

    string shortFileName = tokenLeft + tokenCenter + tokenRight;