Truncate Path

[markstaylor]

Any suggestions or code on how to take a path string that is larger than a label or paragraph in width and truncate it to fit with the begining and end of the string legiable?

from...
C:\Documents and Settings\mtaylor\Desktop\Autoplay 5.0\Samples\This is a good one.exe

to...
C:\Documents and Settings\mtaylor....\Samples\This is a good one.exe

I want to make a function that will work for any size of label or paragraph one line.

[Corey]

Hi. Paths are stored in a table. So if you wish, you could tally the characters and then use String.Replace to turn long paths into short ones by replacing the centermost table items woth "..." then when you display the concatenated path table contents it should fit whatever length you set it to and still show the correct start/end points as in your example. One idea anyhow.

[Dermot]

If you can figure out how many characters fit in the label you could use something like this.

Let's say it can hold about 65 characters

LabelText = String.Left("Your Path", 30) .. "...." .. String.Right("Your Path", 30)
Label.SetText("Your Label", LabelText)

Dermot

[markstaylor]

Thanks Dermot for the code, I was able to get that work.

Corey, do you have any example of how to code it from a table like you had stated?


Thanks