javatools.datatypes
Class StringModifier

java.lang.Object
  javatools.datatypes.StringModifier

public abstract class StringModifier
extends java.lang.Object

This class is part of the Java Tools (see http://mpii.de/yago-naga/javatools). It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) by the YAGO-NAGA team (see http://mpii.de/yago-naga). This class is a collection of additional string modification methods. For instance, it provides methods to generate a string from an array, separating array elements by a given delimiter; String array[]={"cat", "mouse", "cheese"}; String imploded=StringModifier.implode(array," eats "); System.out.println(imploded); -> cat eats mouse eats cheese; imploded=StringModifier.implode(array,","); System.out.println(imploded); -> cat,mouse,cheese; This is helpfull for instance to generate a list of values for database insertion; note that there is also a version of that functionality that makes sure the array strings are all formated for database insertion/queries (e.g. put in quotations).

Constructor Summary

StringModifier()

Method Summary

static boolean	areEqual(java.lang.String s1, java.lang.String s2) checks for equality between two potential strings
static java.lang.String	implode(java.util.Collection<?> col, java.lang.String delim)
static java.lang.String	implode(java.lang.String[] array, java.lang.String delim)
static java.lang.String	implodeForDB(java.util.Collection<?> col, java.lang.String delim, Database database)
static java.lang.String	implodeForDB(java.util.Iterator<?> it, java.lang.String delim, Database database)
static <T,K> java.lang.String	implodeForDB(java.util.Iterator<java.util.Map.Entry<T,K>> it, java.lang.String keyValueDelim, java.lang.String pairDelim, Database database, boolean formatKey, boolean formatValue) Concatenates key value pairs of a Map.Entry iterator into a combined String, separating each key from its value by a key-value delimeter and each key-value pair by pair delimeter while optionally applying the database.format function to each key/value
static java.lang.String	implodeForDB(java.util.Map<?,?> map, java.lang.String keyValueDelim, java.lang.String pairDelim, Database database, boolean formatKey, boolean formatValue) Concatenates key value pairs of a Map into a combined String, separating each key from its value by a key-value delimeter and each key-value pair by pair delimeter while optionally applying the database.format function to each key/value
static <T> java.lang.String	implodeForDB(T[] col, java.lang.String delim, Database database)
static java.lang.String	implodeForDBAsConditions(java.util.Map<?,?> map, Database database) Concatenates key value pairs of a Map into a combined String representing the pairs as independent column conditions for a database query, applying the database.format function to each value
static java.lang.String	limitLength(java.lang.String s, int length) limits the length of a String to the given size ie applies s.substring(0,length) for given length iff length
static java.util.Set<java.lang.String>	lowercase(java.lang.String... ar) applies lowercase to all Strings in an array, returns them as a set
static void	main(java.lang.String[] argv) Test method
static java.util.Set<java.lang.String>	toNGram(java.lang.String original, int n) produces an n-gram set from the string
static java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.Double>	toWeighedNGram(java.lang.String original, int n) produces a weighed n-gram set from the string

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

StringModifier

public StringModifier()

Method Detail

implode

public static java.lang.String implode(java.lang.String[] array,
                                       java.lang.String delim)

implode

public static java.lang.String implode(java.util.Collection<?> col,
                                       java.lang.String delim)

implodeForDB

public static java.lang.String implodeForDB(java.util.Collection<?> col,
                                            java.lang.String delim,
                                            Database database)

implodeForDB

public static java.lang.String implodeForDB(java.util.Iterator<?> it,
                                            java.lang.String delim,
                                            Database database)

implodeForDB

public static <T> java.lang.String implodeForDB(T[] col,
                                                java.lang.String delim,
                                                Database database)

implodeForDBAsConditions

public static java.lang.String implodeForDBAsConditions(java.util.Map<?,?> map,
                                                        Database database)

Concatenates key value pairs of a Map into a combined String representing the pairs as independent column conditions for a database query, applying the database.format function to each value

Parameters:

map - the Map to be imploded

database - the Database instance for which the pairs shall be formatted

implodeForDB

public static java.lang.String implodeForDB(java.util.Map<?,?> map,
                                            java.lang.String keyValueDelim,
                                            java.lang.String pairDelim,
                                            Database database,
                                            boolean formatKey,
                                            boolean formatValue)

Concatenates key value pairs of a Map into a combined String, separating each key from its value by a key-value delimeter and each key-value pair by pair delimeter while optionally applying the database.format function to each key/value

Parameters:

map - the Map to be imploded

keyValueDelimeter - delimeter inserted between each key and its value

pairDelimeter - delimeter inserted between key-value pairs

database - the Database instance for which the pairs shall be formatted

formatKey - flag indicating whether to format the keys with database.format

formatValue - flag indicating whether to format the values with database.format

implodeForDB

public static <T,K> java.lang.String implodeForDB(java.util.Iterator<java.util.Map.Entry<T,K>> it,
                                                  java.lang.String keyValueDelim,
                                                  java.lang.String pairDelim,
                                                  Database database,
                                                  boolean formatKey,
                                                  boolean formatValue)

Concatenates key value pairs of a Map.Entry iterator into a combined String, separating each key from its value by a key-value delimeter and each key-value pair by pair delimeter while optionally applying the database.format function to each key/value

Parameters:

it - the Map.Entry iterator

keyValueDelimeter - delimeter inserted between each key and its value

pairDelimeter - delimeter inserted between key-value pairs

database - the Database instance for which the pairs shall be formatted

formatKey - flag indicating whether to format the keys with database.format

formatValue - flag indicating whether to format the values with database.format

limitLength

public static java.lang.String limitLength(java.lang.String s,
                                           int length)

limits the length of a String to the given size ie applies s.substring(0,length) for given length iff length

toNGram

public static java.util.Set<java.lang.String> toNGram(java.lang.String original,
                                                      int n)

produces an n-gram set from the string

Parameters:

original - the String to be split into n-grams of size n

n - size of the n-grams

Returns:

set of n-grams

toWeighedNGram

public static java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.Double> toWeighedNGram(java.lang.String original,
                                                                              int n)

produces a weighed n-gram set from the string

Parameters:

original - the String to be split into n-grams of size n

n - size of the n-grams

Returns:

map of n-grams with their weight (frequency/overall number of ngrams)

lowercase

public static final java.util.Set<java.lang.String> lowercase(java.lang.String... ar)

applies lowercase to all Strings in an array, returns them as a set

areEqual

public static final boolean areEqual(java.lang.String s1,
                                     java.lang.String s2)

checks for equality between two potential strings

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] argv)
                 throws java.lang.Exception

Test method

Throws:

java.lang.Exception