How about using RegEx and taking off everything but
the bold tags (or put a placeholder for the bold
tags)? Then, pinch off the string at a convenient
location (a space!) and re-add the html tags. Not an
expert at this. . . .
--- Yannick Smits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have a db field that contains HTML. Now I want to
> have the first 100 some
> characters of this field without ending up with
> invalid HTML. This means it
> shouldn't split in the middle of a hyperlink or bold
> text. Ideally it would
> even split in the middle and add the end tag but
> that might be hard.
>
> Has anybody tackled this problem and what was your
> approach? I'm curious
> what creative ideas you have to this problem.
>
> Here is what I have until now to make sure I don't
> split the string in the
> middle of a sentence or word:
>
> public string SpaceFinder(string input)
> {
> if (input.Length > 110)
> input = input.Substring(0,110);
> if (input.LastIndexOf(".") != -1)
> input =
> input.Substring(0,input.LastIndexOf(".")+1);
> else if (input.LastIndexOf(" ") != -1)
> input = input.Substring(0,input.LastIndexOf("
> ")) + "..";
> return input;
> }
>
> thanks,
> Yannick Smits
>
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