proposal/mutant/src/java/common/org/apache/ant/common/util/StringUtils.java

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package org.apache.ant.common.util;
import java.io.PrintWriter;

import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;

/**
 *  A set of helper methods related to string manipulation.
 *
 * @author  <a href="mailto:sbailliez@apache.org">Stephane Bailliez</a>
 */
public final class StringUtils {

    /**  the line separator for this OS */
    public static final String LINE_SEP = System.getProperty("line.separator");

    /**
     *  Convenient method to retrieve the full stacktrace from a given
     *  exception.
     *
     * @param  t the exception to get the stacktrace from.
     * @return  the stacktrace from the given exception.
     */
    public static String getStackTrace(Throwable t) {
        StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
        PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw, true);
        t.printStackTrace(pw);
        pw.flush();
        pw.close();
        return sw.toString();
    }

    /**
     *  Splits up a string into a list of lines. It is equivalent to <tt>
     *  split(data, '\n')</tt> .
     *
     * @param  data the string to split up into lines.
     * @return  the list of lines available in the string.
     */
    public static List lineSplit(String data) {
        return split(data, '\n');
    }

    /**
     *  Splits up a string where elements are separated by a specific
     *  character and return all elements.
     *
     * @param  data the string to split up.
     * @param  ch the separator character.
     * @return  the list of elements.
     */
    public static List split(String data, int ch) {
        List elems = new ArrayList();
        int pos = -1;
        int i = 0;
        while ((pos = data.indexOf(ch, i)) != -1) {
            String elem = data.substring(i, pos);
            elems.add(elem);
            i = pos + 1;
        }
        elems.add(data.substring(i));
        return elems;
    }

    /**
     *  Replace occurrences into a string.
     *
     * @param  data the string to replace occurrences into
     * @param  from the occurrence to replace.
     * @param  to the occurrence to be used as a replacement.
     * @return  the new string with replaced occurrences.
     */
    public static String replace(String data, String from, String to) {
        StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(data.length());
        int pos = -1;
        int i = 0;
        while ((pos = data.indexOf(from, i)) != -1) {
            buf.append(data.substring(i, pos)).append(to);
            i = pos + from.length();
        }
        buf.append(data.substring(i));
        return buf.toString();
    }

}