C#: Break Long Strings Of Text That Don't Contain A Space

• Tweet
• 

        Long strings of text with no spaces breaks most tables since the browser doesn't know where to start a new line. This function breaks a string after a number of characters so that they can be properly displayed in tables

// Put this at the top
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
//

public string BreakLongString(string SubjectString, int CharsToBreakAfter)
{
	string Pattern = "\\S{" + CharsToBreakAfter + ",}";
	int Counter = 0;
	bool IsMatching = Regex.IsMatch(SubjectString, Pattern);
	while (IsMatching)
	{

		Counter++;
		string MatchedString = Regex.Match(SubjectString, Pattern).Value;
		SubjectString = SubjectString.Replace(MatchedString.Substring(0, (CharsToBreakAfter - 1)), MatchedString.Substring(0, (CharsToBreakAfter - 1)) + " ");

		// Prevent endless loops
		if (Counter > 20) break;

		// Check if we still have long strings
		IsMatching = Regex.IsMatch(SubjectString, Pattern);
	}

	return SubjectString;
}

Tags:
• break
• csharp
• INSERT
• Space
• String