de.gerdiproject.harvest.utils

Class StringCleaner

java.lang.Object

de.gerdiproject.harvest.utils.StringCleaner

public class StringCleaner
extends Object

This class is used for cleaning up Strings, removing unneccessary tags and spaces. The ESCAPES table and unescapeHtml() function are adapted versions of code that was developed by Nick Frolov (http://stackoverflow.com/users/305775/nick-frolov)

Author:

Robin Weiss, Nick Frolov

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
StringCleaner()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static String	clean(String input) Cleans up a String, removing unwanted character escapes and trimming it.
static String	unescapeHtml(String input) Unescapes escaped HTML characters.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

StringCleaner

public StringCleaner()

Method Detail

clean

public static String clean(String input)

Cleans up a String, removing unwanted character escapes and trimming it.

Parameters:

input - the String which is to be cleaned

Returns:

a cleaned String

unescapeHtml

public static final String unescapeHtml(String input)

Unescapes escaped HTML characters.

Parameters:

input - a HTML input text

Returns:

a text with unescaped characters.