Question

I have 2 strings. I want to combine the two strings as long as the number of characters of the combined string are 20 or less. If the combined length is great than 20 I want to truncate the first string until the combined length is 20. The second string will never be more than 2 characters.

This is easy to do. But, I’m looking for short, elegant code.

Answer 1

string s1 = "some_string";
string s2 = "AB";

string s3 = s1.Substring(0, Math.Min(s1.Length, 20 - s2.Length)) + s2;