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
* return a string
* Given a byte array of 16-bit unicode characters in Little Endian
* format (most important byte last), return a Java String representation
* of it.
*
* { 0x16, 0x00 } -0x16
*
@ -77,8 +78,9 @@ public class StringUtil {
}
/**
* given a byte array of 16-bit unicode characters, compress to 8-bit and
* return a string
* Given a byte array of 16-bit unicode characters in little endian
* format (most important byte last), return a Java String representation
* of it.
*
* { 0x16, 0x00 } -0x16
*
@ -90,8 +92,9 @@ public class StringUtil {
}
/**
* given a byte array of 16-bit unicode characters, compress to 8-bit and
* return a string
* Given a byte array of 16-bit unicode characters in big endian
* format (most important byte first), return a Java String representation
* of it.
*
* { 0x00, 0x16 } -0x16
*
@ -127,8 +130,9 @@ public class StringUtil {
}
/**
* given a byte array of 16-bit unicode characters, compress to 8-bit and
* return a string
* Given a byte array of 16-bit unicode characters in big endian
* format (most important byte first), return a Java String representation
* of it.
*
* { 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 offset offset to read byte array
@ -159,7 +165,9 @@ 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 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 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
*/
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 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
*/
public static void putUnicodeBE(
@ -217,11 +229,12 @@ public class StringUtil {
}
/**
* Description of the Method
*
*@param message Description of the Parameter
*@param params Description of the Parameter
*@return Description of the Return Value
* Apply printf() like formatting to a string.
* Primarily used for logging.
*@param message the string with embedded formatting info
* eg. "This is a test %2.2"
*@param params array of values to format into the string
*@return The formatted string
*/
public static String format(String message, Object[] params) {
int currentParamNumber = 0;
@ -256,14 +269,7 @@ public class StringUtil {
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(
Number number,
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() {
return ENCODING;
@ -321,7 +327,8 @@ public class StringUtil {
}
/**
* @param format
* Checks to see if a given String needs to be represented as Unicode
* @param value
* @return true if string needs Unicode to be represented.
*/
public static boolean isUnicodeString(final String value) {