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Escape commas in the string using the default escape char
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import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.util.Collection;
/**
* General string utils
*/
public class StringUtils {
final public static char COMMA = ',';
final public static String COMMA_STR = ",";
final public static char ESCAPE_CHAR = '\\';
/**
* Escape commas in the string using the default escape char
* @param str a string
* @return an escaped string
*/
public static String escapeString(String str) {
return escapeString(str, ESCAPE_CHAR, COMMA);
}
/**
* Escape <code>charToEscape</code> in the string
* with the escape char <code>escapeChar</code>
*
* @param str string
* @param escapeChar escape char
* @param charToEscape the char to be escaped
* @return an escaped string
*/
public static String escapeString(String str, char escapeChar, char charToEscape) {
if (str == null) {
return null;
}
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
for (int i=0; i<str.length(); i++) {
char curChar = str.charAt(i);
if (curChar == escapeChar || curChar == charToEscape) {
// special char
result.append(escapeChar);
}
result.append(curChar);
}
return result.toString();
}
}
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