Package org.appng.tools.ui

Class StringNormalizer

java.lang.Object

org.appng.tools.ui.StringNormalizer

public class StringNormalizer
extends Object

A utility class offering some string operations

Author:

Matthais Müller

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static Pattern	NON_PRINTABLE_CHARACTER	matches every character that is a control character (\p{Cc}, a unicode general category) and not tab (\t), carriage return (\r) or new line (\n)

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
StringNormalizer()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static String	normalize(String input)	Removes the following characters from the given string: ! " § $ % & / ( ) = ? ´ { [ ] } \ ` + - * % : , ; < > ° ^ # ~ ' | Additionally, all diacritics are removed from the string. Finally, it replaces german umlauts ( ä ö ü ß) with their two-letter representations (ae oe ue ss).
static String	removeNonPrintableCharacters(String value)	Removes all non-printable characters from the given string.
static String	replaceNonPrintableCharacters(String value, String replacement)	Replaces all non-printable characters of the given string with the given replacement

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

NON_PRINTABLE_CHARACTER

public static final Pattern NON_PRINTABLE_CHARACTER

matches every character that is a control character (\p{Cc}, a unicode general category) and not tab (\t), carriage return (\r) or new line (\n)

Constructor Detail

StringNormalizer

public StringNormalizer()

Method Detail

normalize

public static final String normalize(String input)

Removes the following characters from the given string:
! " § $ % & / ( ) = ? ´ { [ ] } \ ` + - * % : , ; < > ° ^ # ~ ' |
Additionally, all diacritics are removed from the string.
Finally, it replaces german umlauts ( ä ö ü ß) with their two-letter representations (ae oe ue ss).

Parameters:

input - the input string

Returns:

the "normalized" string

removeNonPrintableCharacters

public static String removeNonPrintableCharacters(String value)

Removes all non-printable characters from the given string.

Parameters:

value - the string

Returns:

the string without any non printable characters

replaceNonPrintableCharacters

public static String replaceNonPrintableCharacters(String value,
                                                   String replacement)

Replaces all non-printable characters of the given string with the given replacement

Parameters:

value - the string

replacement - the replacement string

Returns:

the string with the replacements for non-printable characters