C sharp delimiter - c#-3.0

Question

In a given sentence i want to split into 10 character string. The last word should not be incomplete in the string. Splitting should be done based on space or , or .
For example:
this is ram.he works at mcity.
now the substring of 10 chars is,
this is ra.
but the output should be,
this is.
Last word should not be incomplete

Answer 1

You can use a regular expression that checks that the character after the match is not a word character:
string input = "this is ram.he";
Match match = Regex.Match(input, #"^.{0,10}(?!\w)");
string result;
if (match.Success)
{
result = match.Value;
}
else
{
result = string.Empty;
}
Result:
this is
An alternative approach is to build the string up token by token until adding another token would exceed the character limit:
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
foreach (Match match in Regex.Matches(input, #"\w+|\W+"))
{
if (sb.Length + match.Value.Length > 10) { break; }
sb.Append(match.Value);
}
string result = sb.ToString();

Answer 2

Not sure if this is the sort of thing you were looking for. Note that this could be done a lot cleaner, but should get you started ... (may want to use StringBuilder instead of String).
char[] delimiterChars = { ',', '.',' ' };
string s = "this is ram.he works at mcity.";
string step1 = s.Substring(0, 10); // Get first 10 chars
string[] step2a = step1.Split(delimiterChars); // Get words
string[] step2b = s.Split(delimiterChars); // Get words
string sFinal = "";
for (int i = 0; i < step2a.Count()-1; i++) // copy count-1 words
{
if (i == 0)
{
sFinal = step2a[i];
}
else
{
sFinal = sFinal + " " + step2a[i];
}
}
// Check if last word is a complete word.
if (step2a[step2a.Count() - 1] == step2b[step2a.Count() - 1])
{
sFinal = sFinal + " " + step2b[step2a.Count() - 1] + ".";
}
else
{
sFinal = sFinal + ".";
}