Remove whitespace from the ends as well as excessive whitespace within the inside of the string between non-whitespace characters. : String char « Data Type « Java

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Java » Data Type » String charScreenshots 
Remove whitespace from the ends as well as excessive whitespace within the inside of the string between non-whitespace characters.
  
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/**
 * Various string manipulation methods that are more efficient then chaining
 * string operations: all is done in the same buffer without creating a bunch of
 * string objects.
 
 @author <a href="mailto:dev@labs.apache.org">Dungeon Project</a>
 */
public class Main {
  /**
   * A deep trim of a string remove whitespace from the ends as well as
   * excessive whitespace within the inside of the string between
   * non-whitespace characters. A deep trim reduces internal whitespace down
   * to a single space to perserve the whitespace separated tokenization order
   * of the String.
   
   @param string
   *            the string to deep trim.
   @return the trimmed string.
   */
  public static final String deepTrimString string )
  {
      return deepTrimstring, false );
  }


  /**
   * This does the same thing as a trim but we also lowercase the string while
   * performing the deep trim within the same buffer. This saves us from
   * having to create multiple String and StringBuffer objects and is much
   * more efficient.
   
   @see StringTools#deepTrim( String )
   */
  public static final String deepTrimToLowerString string )
  {
      return deepTrimstring, true );
  }


  /**
   * Put common code to deepTrim(String) and deepTrimToLower here.
   
   @param str
   *            the string to deep trim
   @param toLowerCase
   *            how to normalize for case: upper or lower
   @return the deep trimmed string
   @see StringTools#deepTrim( String )
   
   * TODO Replace the toCharArray() by substring manipulations
   */
  public static final String deepTrimString str, boolean toLowerCase )
  {
      if ( ( null == str || str.length() == ) )
      {
          return "";
      }

      char ch;
      char[] buf = str.toCharArray();
      char[] newbuf = new char[buf.length];
      boolean wsSeen = false;
      boolean isStart = true;
      int pos = 0;

      for int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++ )
      {
          ch = buf[i];

          // filter out all uppercase characters
          if toLowerCase )
          {
              if Character.isUpperCasech ) )
              {
                  ch = Character.toLowerCasech );
              }
          }

          // Check to see if we should add space
          if Character.isWhitespacech ) )
          {
              // If the buffer has had characters added already check last
              // added character. Only append a spc if last character was
              // not whitespace.
              if wsSeen )
              {
                  continue;
              }
              else
              {
                  wsSeen = true;

                  if isStart )
                  {
                      isStart = false;
                  }
                  else
                  {
                      newbuf[pos++= ch;
                  }
              }
          }
          else
          {
              // Add all non-whitespace
              wsSeen = false;
              isStart = false;
              newbuf[pos++= ch;
          }
      }

      return pos == "" new Stringnewbuf, 0wsSeen ? pos - : pos ) ) );
  }

}

   
    
  
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