How to convert file name with path to short file name (DOS style) in Adobe AIR?
For example convert next path
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe AIR\Versions\1.0\Resources\Adobe AIR Updater.exe"
to
"C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\ADOBEA~1\VERSIONS\1.0\RESOUR~1\ADOBEA~1.EXE"
Is there any algorithm?
Assuming your text portion is a string variable, you can split it by using "\" as delimiter. Then, you will have an array which you can use to check if each block is longer than 8 characters. While looping the array you can chop the last characters of each long block and put ~1. Since you're in the loop, you can progressively add to a temporary variable all these changes which will give you the final edited result at the end.
The only part that's a bit tricky is to pay attention to .exe part at the end.
So, if I were you, I'd start reading on String.split(), String.substring(), for loop, arrays