Automatically ellipsize a string in Java

Question

Is there a method in Java to automatically ellipsize a string? Just in Java, not other libraries.

Thanks.

Answer 1

This method will return the ellipsized String:

String ellipsize(String input, int maxLength) {
    String ellip = "...";
    if (input == null || input.length() <= maxLength 
           || input.length() < ellip.length()) {
        return input;
    }
    return input.substring(0, maxLength - ellip.length()).concat(ellip);
}