Clamping a strings length in C#

The Clamp extension method will limit a string to a certain amount of max characters. Adds ellipses if the string is > max characters.

Great when you have a long string, like a blog post, and want to show a preview of it without showing the full thing.

public static string Clamp(this string value, int maxChars)
{
	return value.Length <= maxChars 
        ? value 
        : value.Substring(0, maxChars) + "...";
}

// example usage
var str = "This is some long sentence";
var clampedStr = str.Clamp(10);
// clampedStr = "This is so...";