StringUtil javadocs, supplied by Nick Burch, thanks. bug 34922

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Avik Sengupta 2005-05-16 14:44:37 +00:00
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@ -39,8 +39,9 @@ public class StringUtil {
} }
/** /**
* given a byte array of 16-bit unicode characters, compress to 8-bit and * Given a byte array of 16-bit unicode characters in Little Endian
* return a string * format (most important byte last), return a Java String representation
* of it.
* *
* { 0x16, 0x00 } -0x16 * { 0x16, 0x00 } -0x16
* *
@ -77,8 +78,9 @@ public class StringUtil {
} }
/** /**
* given a byte array of 16-bit unicode characters, compress to 8-bit and * Given a byte array of 16-bit unicode characters in little endian
* return a string * format (most important byte last), return a Java String representation
* of it.
* *
* { 0x16, 0x00 } -0x16 * { 0x16, 0x00 } -0x16
* *
@ -90,8 +92,9 @@ public class StringUtil {
} }
/** /**
* given a byte array of 16-bit unicode characters, compress to 8-bit and * Given a byte array of 16-bit unicode characters in big endian
* return a string * format (most important byte first), return a Java String representation
* of it.
* *
* { 0x00, 0x16 } -0x16 * { 0x00, 0x16 } -0x16
* *
@ -127,8 +130,9 @@ public class StringUtil {
} }
/** /**
* given a byte array of 16-bit unicode characters, compress to 8-bit and * Given a byte array of 16-bit unicode characters in big endian
* return a string * format (most important byte first), return a Java String representation
* of it.
* *
* { 0x00, 0x16 } -0x16 * { 0x00, 0x16 } -0x16
* *
@ -140,7 +144,9 @@ public class StringUtil {
} }
/** /**
* read compressed unicode(8bit) * Read 8 bit data (in ISO-8859-1 codepage) into a (unicode) Java
* String and return.
* (In Excel terms, read compressed 8 bit unicode as a string)
* *
* @param string byte array to read * @param string byte array to read
* @param offset offset to read byte array * @param offset offset to read byte array
@ -158,8 +164,10 @@ public class StringUtil {
} }
} }
/** /**
* write compressed unicode * Takes a unicode (java) string, and returns it as 8 bit data (in ISO-8859-1
* codepage).
* (In Excel terms, write compressed 8 bit unicode)
* *
*@param input the String containing the data to be written *@param input the String containing the data to be written
*@param output the byte array to which the data is to be written *@param output the byte array to which the data is to be written
@ -179,10 +187,12 @@ public class StringUtil {
} }
/** /**
* Write uncompressed unicode * Takes a unicode string, and returns it as little endian (most
* important byte last) bytes in the supplied byte array.
* (In Excel terms, write uncompressed unicode)
* *
*@param input the String containing the unicode data to be written *@param input the String containing the unicode data to be written
*@param output the byte array to hold the uncompressed unicode *@param output the byte array to hold the uncompressed unicode, should be twice the length of the String
*@param offset the offset to start writing into the byte array *@param offset the offset to start writing into the byte array
*/ */
public static void putUnicodeLE( public static void putUnicodeLE(
@ -198,10 +208,12 @@ public class StringUtil {
} }
/** /**
* Write uncompressed unicode * Takes a unicode string, and returns it as big endian (most
* important byte first) bytes in the supplied byte array.
* (In Excel terms, write uncompressed unicode)
* *
*@param input the String containing the unicode data to be written *@param input the String containing the unicode data to be written
*@param output the byte array to hold the uncompressed unicode *@param output the byte array to hold the uncompressed unicode, should be twice the length of the String
*@param offset the offset to start writing into the byte array *@param offset the offset to start writing into the byte array
*/ */
public static void putUnicodeBE( public static void putUnicodeBE(
@ -217,11 +229,12 @@ public class StringUtil {
} }
/** /**
* Description of the Method * Apply printf() like formatting to a string.
* * Primarily used for logging.
*@param message Description of the Parameter *@param message the string with embedded formatting info
*@param params Description of the Parameter * eg. "This is a test %2.2"
*@return Description of the Return Value *@param params array of values to format into the string
*@return The formatted string
*/ */
public static String format(String message, Object[] params) { public static String format(String message, Object[] params) {
int currentParamNumber = 0; int currentParamNumber = 0;
@ -256,14 +269,7 @@ public class StringUtil {
return formattedMessage.toString(); return formattedMessage.toString();
} }
/**
* Description of the Method
*
*@param number Description of the Parameter
*@param formatting Description of the Parameter
*@param outputTo Description of the Parameter
*@return Description of the Return Value
*/
private static int matchOptionalFormatting( private static int matchOptionalFormatting(
Number number, Number number,
String formatting, String formatting,
@ -298,7 +304,7 @@ public class StringUtil {
} }
/** /**
* @return the encoding we want to use (ISO-8859-1) * @return the encoding we want to use, currently hardcoded to ISO-8859-1
*/ */
public static String getPreferredEncoding() { public static String getPreferredEncoding() {
return ENCODING; return ENCODING;
@ -321,9 +327,10 @@ public class StringUtil {
} }
/** /**
* @param format * Checks to see if a given String needs to be represented as Unicode
* @return true if string needs Unicode to be represented. * @param value
*/ * @return true if string needs Unicode to be represented.
*/
public static boolean isUnicodeString(final String value) { public static boolean isUnicodeString(final String value) {
try { try {
return !value.equals(new String(value.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "ISO-8859-1")); return !value.equals(new String(value.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "ISO-8859-1"));