News section snipits

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I have created a news section for a website I'm working on. I'd like to show the first few words of the article then a link to the rest. I'm kicking myself because I remember a few months ago seeing an article on exactly how to do this, but I have no idea where I found it.

I know how to grab the first so many characters from a string but it gets more tracking when you are trying to grab words instead. If anyone could point me in the direction of a tutorial or article along these things I’d be very grateful.

possible duplicate of [Truncate string on whole words in .Net C#](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1613896/truncate-string-on-whole-words-in-net-c) — Ahmad Mageed, Aug 24 '10 at 14:00

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 24 '10 at 13:57

I'd probably do this with regex. See example below:

private string FindFirstWords (string input, int howManyToFind)
{
      string REGEX = @"([\w]+\s+){" + howManyToFind + "}";
      return Regex.Match(input,REGEX).Value;
}

Stolen from http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2005/01/07/348138.aspx

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 24 '10 at 13:59

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Here is a link to a blog that will return the first X words from a string.

http://dotnetperls.com/first-words

(Please note I haven't written or tested this code)

answered Aug 24 '10 at 13:59

Nathan Koop

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