public static String abbreviate()

in src/main/java/org/apache/commons/text/WordUtils.java [80:113]

• 25 lines of code
• 8 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    public static String abbreviate(final String str, int lower, int upper, final String appendToEnd) {
        Validate.isTrue(upper >= -1, "upper value cannot be less than -1");
        Validate.isTrue(upper >= lower || upper == -1, "upper value is less than lower value");
        if (StringUtils.isEmpty(str)) {
            return str;
        }

        // if the lower value is greater than the length of the string,
        // set to the length of the string
        if (lower > str.length()) {
            lower = str.length();
        }

        // if the upper value is -1 (i.e. no limit) or is greater
        // than the length of the string, set to the length of the string
        if (upper == -1 || upper > str.length()) {
            upper = str.length();
        }

        final StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
        final int index = StringUtils.indexOf(str, " ", lower);
        if (index == -1) {
            result.append(str, 0, upper);
            // only if abbreviation has occurred do we append the appendToEnd value
            if (upper != str.length()) {
                result.append(StringUtils.defaultString(appendToEnd));
            }
        } else {
            result.append(str, 0, Math.min(index, upper));
            result.append(StringUtils.defaultString(appendToEnd));
        }

        return result.toString();
    }