Cut a String to a shorter String

albobz

I am trying to write a function such that it takes an inputted String and creates a new String 'count' characters long. I have this so far:

String stringFront(String s, int count)
{
  for (int l=0; l<count; l++)
  {

  }
}

For example, String stringFront("this is the example", 7) would result in "this is".

GoToLoop

1. https://Processing.org/reference/String_substring_.html
2. http://Docs.Oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#substring-int-int-

albobz

So something like this?

String stringFront(String s, int count)
{
  String ss = s.substring(0,count);
  return ss;
}

albobz

Now that I have stringFront working, I want to do this function using the previous:

/********************
*  Returns a new String containing the first n words in s, where the character delimiter
*  defines a word boundary, using stringFront to get the actual words as a new String.
********************/
final char DELIMETER = ' ';

String getFirstWords(String s, int n, char delimiter)
{

}

GoToLoop

https://Processing.org/reference/split_.html

albobz

The split function does not allow for a set number of words before each split, so it splits the entire entered String into individual words since my delimiter is ' '. I am hoping to split into a new line every 5 words.

kfrajer

Check my second post on this post as I show how to print 5 words per line:

https://forum.processing.org/two/discussion/comment/102725#Comment_102725

Kf