Convert a list to a delimited string.
/** * Licensed under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, version 2.1, dated February 1999. * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the latest version of the GNU Lesser General * Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License * along with this program (LICENSE.txt); if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ //package org.jamwiki.utils; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException; import java.lang.reflect.Constructor; import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLDecoder; import java.net.URLEncoder; import java.text.MessageFormat; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.Iterator; import java.util.List; import java.util.Locale; import java.util.Map; import java.util.ResourceBundle; import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; import java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException; /** * This class provides a variety of basic utility methods that are not * dependent on any other classes within the org.jamwiki package structure. */ public class Utilities { private static Pattern VALID_IPV4_PATTERN = null; private static Pattern VALID_IPV6_PATTERN = null; private static final String ipv4Pattern = "(([01]?\\d\\d?|2[0-4]\\d|25[0-5])\\.){3}([01]?\\d\\d?|2[0-4]\\d|25[0-5])"; private static final String ipv6Pattern = "([0-9a-f]{1,4}:){7}([0-9a-f]){1,4}"; static { try { VALID_IPV4_PATTERN = Pattern.compile(ipv4Pattern, Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE); VALID_IPV6_PATTERN = Pattern.compile(ipv6Pattern, Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE); } catch (PatternSyntaxException e) { //logger.severe("Unable to compile pattern", e); } } /** * Convert a list to a delimited string. * * @param list The list to convert to a string. * @param delimiter The string to use as a delimiter. * @return A string consisting of the delimited list items, or <code>null</code> if the * list is <code>null</code> or empty. */ public static String listToDelimitedString(List<String> list, String delimiter) { if (delimiter == null) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Attempt to call Utilities.delimitedStringToList with no delimiter specified"); } if (list == null || list.isEmpty()) { return null; } String result = ""; for (String item : list) { if (result.length() > 0) { result += delimiter; } result += item; } return result; } }