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Apache Commons Lang 3.0 is a java library with lot of utilities and reusable components. This requires the library commons-lang3-3.0.1.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows using StringUtils.abbreviate() API. It returns the abbreviated String using ellipses.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/commons_lang/tests/strings/AbbreviateTest.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.commons_lang.tests.strings;



import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;



public class AbbreviateTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) {

         

    System.out.println(StringUtils.abbreviate(null, 6));

    System.out.println(StringUtils.abbreviate("", 6));

    System.out.println(StringUtils.abbreviate("abcdefgh", 6)); //(string, maxWidth)

    System.out.println(StringUtils.abbreviate("abcdefgh", 5));

    System.out.println(StringUtils.abbreviate("abcdefgh", 4));

    

    //Minimum abbreviation width is 4

    //System.out.println(StringUtils.abbreviate("abcdefgh", 3));

  }



}