{"id":476,"date":"2015-12-31T19:38:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T17:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kra.lc\/blog\/?p=476"},"modified":"2016-01-04T22:14:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T20:14:40","slug":"java-characters-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kra.lc\/blog\/2015\/12\/java-characters-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Java Characters class"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is going to be my last post in 2015<\/em>, as New Year’s Eve quickly approaches. I also have to hurry up a little, as the raclette grill is already heating up. *jummy*<\/strong> ;-)<\/p>\n

Time for a little year-end review. This year has again been very successful for me. After finishing my Master’s Degree in Computer Science end of last year, I began working as a research associate at the University of Applied Sciences in Mannheim next to my main job. We made great progress and were able to release the Genetic Code Anylsis Toolkit<\/a> just recently. Some of the code snippets of the past few days, have been part of the work done for the Genetic Code Analysis Toolkit. Other than that I mainly focussed on my primary workplace, where I was working hard towards a first release of the SAP ONE Support Launchpad<\/a>. A lot more happened, but as our little marathon<\/a> soon comes to an end, let’s get to the point of this post.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of helper classes<\/em> in Java. Even in the core libraries you’ll find plenty of them. Classes such as Arrays<\/code>, or the Collections<\/code> class dealing with lists, sets and maps. One helper class I was missing out on, is a Characters<\/code> class<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

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I often face the problem to have a String<\/code> left or right trimmed for a certain character or a certain class of characters (e.g. whitespaces or new-line characters). Also other character based operations, such as finding the first occurrence of a character, or condensing multiple subsequent occurrences of a character into one, are commonly required. All of this can be achieved using the existing String<\/code> methods and regular expressions, but for each character it’s again the same patterns to use and the same methods to call. Therefore I thought, why not creating a Characters<\/code> helper class in Java, dealing with all of this?<\/p>\n

Said and done. Please find my neat little implementation of a Characters<\/code> helper class on GitHub at https:\/\/github.com\/kristian\/characters<\/strong><\/a>. With this dealing with characters becomes a walk in the park:<\/p>\n

\r\nCharacters.valueOf('X').trim('XXXHello WorldXXX');\r\nCharacters.WHITESPACE.condense('Foo  Bar  Baz');\r\n<\/pre>\n
I hope you had a great year 2015, best wishes for the New Year! See you in 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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