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

I've improved upon Peter Lawrey's solution to accurately handle surrogate pairs. In addition, I optimized based on the fact that the maximum number of bytes per char in UTF-8 encoding is 3.

public static String substring(String text, int maxBytes) {
    for (int i = 0, len = text.length(); (len - i) * 3 > maxBytes;) {
        int j = text.offsetByCodePoints(i, 1);
        if ((maxBytes -= text.substring(i, j).getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8).length) < 0)  
            return text.substring(0, i);
        i = j;
    }
    return text;
}

Answer 2

Use the UTF-8 CharsetEncoder, and encode until the output ByteBuffer contains as many bytes as you are willing to take, by looking for CoderResult.OVERFLOW.

Answer 3

String s = "FOOBAR";

int limit = 3;
s = new String(s.getBytes(), 0, limit);

Result value of s:

FOO

Answer 4

Second Approach here works good http://www.jroller.com/holy/entry/truncating_utf_string_to_the

Answer 5

This is my :

private static final int FIELD_MAX = 2000;
private static final Charset CHARSET =  Charset.forName("UTF-8"); 

public String trancStatus(String status) {

    if (status != null && (status.getBytes(CHARSET).length > FIELD_MAX)) {
        int maxLength = FIELD_MAX;

        int left = 0, right = status.length();
        int index = 0, bytes = 0, sizeNextChar = 0;

        while (bytes != maxLength && (bytes > maxLength || (bytes + sizeNextChar < maxLength))) {

            index = left + (right - left) / 2;

            bytes = status.substring(0, index).getBytes(CHARSET).length;
            sizeNextChar = String.valueOf(status.charAt(index + 1)).getBytes(CHARSET).length;

            if (bytes < maxLength) {
                left = index - 1;
            } else {
                right = index + 1;
            }
        }

        return status.substring(0, index);

    } else {
        return status;
    }
}

Answer 6

you could convert the string to bytes and convert just those bytes back to a string.

public static String substring(String text, int maxBytes) {
   StringBuilder ret = new StringBuilder();
   for(int i = 0;i < text.length(); i++) {
       // works out how many bytes a character takes, 
       // and removes these from the total allowed.
       if((maxBytes -= text.substring(i, i+1).getBytes().length) < 0) break;
       ret.append(text.charAt(i));
   }
   return ret.toString();
}