Class StringUtils

Method Details

• lineSplit

  public static Vector<String> lineSplit(String data)

  Splits up a string into a list of lines. It is equivalent to split(data, '\n').

  Parameters:

  data - the string to split up into lines.

  Returns:

  the list of lines available in the string.

• split

  public static Vector<String> split(String data, int ch)

  Splits up a string where elements are separated by a specific character and return all elements.

  Parameters:

  data - the string to split up.

  ch - the separator character.

  Returns:

  the list of elements.

• replace

  @Deprecated public static String replace(String data, String from, String to)

  Deprecated.

  Use String.replace(CharSequence, CharSequence) now.

  Replace occurrences into a string.

  Parameters:

  data - the string to replace occurrences into

  from - the occurrence to replace.

  to - the occurrence to be used as a replacement.

  Returns:

  the new string with replaced occurrences.

• getStackTrace

  public static String getStackTrace(Throwable t)

  Convenient method to retrieve the full stacktrace from a given exception.

  Parameters:

  t - the exception to get the stacktrace from.

  Returns:

  the stacktrace from the given exception.

• endsWith

  public static boolean endsWith(StringBuffer buffer, String suffix)

  Checks that a string buffer ends up with a given string. It may sound trivial with the existing JDK API but the various implementation among JDKs can make those methods extremely resource intensive and perform poorly due to massive memory allocation and copying. See

  Parameters:

  buffer - the buffer to perform the check on

  suffix - the suffix

  Returns:

  true if the character sequence represented by the argument is a suffix of the character sequence represented by the StringBuffer object; false otherwise. Note that the result will be true if the argument is the empty string.

• resolveBackSlash

  public static String resolveBackSlash(String input)

  xml does not do "c" like interpretation of strings. i.e. \n\r\t etc. this method processes \n, \r, \t, \f, \\ also subs \s -> " \n\r\t\f" a trailing '\' will be ignored

  Parameters:

  input - raw string with possible embedded '\'s

  Returns:

  converted string

  Since:

  Ant 1.7

• parseHumanSizes

  public static long parseHumanSizes(String humanSize) throws Exception

  Takes a human readable size representation eg 10K a long value. Doesn't support 1.1K or other rational values.

  Parameters:

  humanSize - the amount as a human readable string.

  Returns:

  a long value representation

  Throws:

  Exception - if there is a problem.

  Since:

  Ant 1.7

• removeSuffix

  public static String removeSuffix(String string, String suffix)

  Removes the suffix from a given string, if the string contains that suffix.

  Parameters:

  string - String for check

  suffix - Suffix to remove

  Returns:

  the string with the suffix

• removePrefix

  public static String removePrefix(String string, String prefix)

  Removes the prefix from a given string, if the string contains that prefix.

  Parameters:

  string - String for check

  prefix - Prefix to remove

  Returns:

  the string with the prefix

• join

  public static String join(Collection<?> collection, CharSequence separator)

  Joins the string representation of the elements of a collection to a joined string with a given separator.

  Parameters:

  collection - Collection of the data to be joined (may be null)

  separator - Separator between elements (may be null)

  Returns:

  the joined string

• join

  public static String join(Object[] array, CharSequence separator)

  Joins the string representation of the elements of an array to a joined string with a given separator.

  Parameters:

  array - Array of the data to be joined (may be null)

  separator - Separator between elements (may be null)

  Returns:

  the joined string

• trimToNull

  public static String trimToNull(String inputString)

  Parameters:

  inputString - String to trim

  Returns:

  null if the input string is null or empty or contain only empty spaces. It returns the input string without leading and trailing spaces otherwise.