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public class
StringUtils
extends java.lang.Object
Operations on String
that are null
safe.
- IsEmpty/IsBlank - checks if a String contains text
- Trim/Strip - removes leading and trailing whitespace
- Equals - compares two strings null-safe
- startsWith - check if a String starts with a prefix null-safe
- endsWith - check if a String ends with a suffix null-safe
- IndexOf/LastIndexOf/Contains - null-safe index-of checks
- IndexOfAny/LastIndexOfAny/IndexOfAnyBut/LastIndexOfAnyBut - index-of any of a set of Strings
- ContainsOnly/ContainsNone/ContainsAny - does String contains only/none/any of these characters
- Substring/Left/Right/Mid - null-safe substring extractions
- SubstringBefore/SubstringAfter/SubstringBetween - substring extraction relative to other strings
- Split/Join - splits a String into an array of substrings and vice versa
- Remove/Delete - removes part of a String
- Replace/Overlay - Searches a String and replaces one String with another
- Chomp/Chop - removes the last part of a String
- LeftPad/RightPad/Center/Repeat - pads a String
- UpperCase/LowerCase/SwapCase/Capitalize/Uncapitalize - changes the case of a String
- CountMatches - counts the number of occurrences of one String in another
- IsAlpha/IsNumeric/IsWhitespace/IsAsciiPrintable - checks the characters in a String
- DefaultString - protects against a null input String
- Reverse/ReverseDelimited - reverses a String
- Abbreviate - abbreviates a string using ellipsis
- Difference - compares Strings and reports on their differences
- LevensteinDistance - the number of changes needed to change one String into another
The StringUtils
class defines certain words related to String handling.
- null -
null
- empty - a zero-length string (
""
) - space - the space character (
' '
, char 32) - whitespace - the characters defined by
Character.isWhitespace(char)
- trim - the characters <= 32 as in
String.trim()
StringUtils
handles null
input Strings quietly. That is to say that a null
input will return null
. Where a boolean
or int
is being returned details vary by method.
A side effect of the null
handling is that a NullPointerException
should be considered a bug in StringUtils
(except for deprecated methods).
Methods in this class give sample code to explain their operation. The symbol *
is used to indicate any input including null
.