Tiny way to get the first 25 characters

Question

Can anyone think of a nicer way to do the following:

public string ShortDescription
{
    get { return this.Description.Length <= 25 ? this.Description :          


        

Answer 1

I'd stick with what you have tbh, but just as an alternative, if you have LINQ to objects you could

new string(this.Description.ToCharArray().Take(25).ToArray())

//And to maintain the ...
+ (this.Description.Length <= 25 ? String.Empty : "...")

As others have said, you'd likely want to store 25 in a constant