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Language: PowerShell

Truncate a string to specified length

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function truncate-string([string]$value, [int]$length)
{
    if ($value.Length -gt $length) { $value.Substring(0, $length) }
    else { $value }
}

by David R. Longnecker
August 25, 2009 @ 7:34am

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powershell, string, function

Comment:

Couldn't find a truncate string function built-in, so I created one.

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