Shorten Path name

[Tony Maresca]

Is there any framework function or code floating
around that someone knows of, that can take a long
path name and remove the middle parts to make it
fit in a given field of characters for display in my UI?

Thanks,

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Tony M.

[rawCoder]

PathCompactPath[Ex] Win32 Api does this thing.

HTH
rawCoder

"Tony Maresca" <to**@whereever.com> wrote in message
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Is there any framework function or code floating
around that someone knows of, that can take a long
path name and remove the middle parts to make it
fit in a given field of characters for display in my UI?

Thanks,

--
Tony M.

[gmiley]

Not sure exactly what you mean, but if you wanted - say...

C:\SomeFolder\SubFolderOne\SubSubFolderOne\File.tx t

to appear as:

C:\SomeFolder\...File.txt

You could use the string objects methods to concatinate the Left N
characters with "..." and the Right N characters.

There could be several ways to do this, but mostly it comes down to
simple string manipulation.

[Chris Jobson]

"Tony Maresca" <to**@whereever.com> wrote in message
news:u2**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

Is there any framework function or code floating
around that someone knows of, that can take a long
path name and remove the middle parts to make it
fit in a given field of characters for display in my UI?

If you're just worried about displaying the shortened string (i.e. you don't
need to actually know which characters have been removed) then you could try
Graphics.DrawString, using a StringFormat object whose Trimming property is
set to StringTrimming.EllipsisPath.

Chris Jobson

[Tony Maresca]

Thanks to all for the advice.

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Tony M.
"Tony Maresca" <to**@whereever.com> wrote in message news:u2**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

Is there any framework function or code floating
around that someone knows of, that can take a long
path name and remove the middle parts to make it
fit in a given field of characters for display in my UI?

Thanks,

--
Tony M.