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Rewrote the toLowercase method to improve performances.

   
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/**
 * Various string manipulation methods that are more efficient then chaining
 * string operations: all is done in the same buffer without creating a bunch of
 * string objects.
 * 
 * @author <a href="mailto:dev@labs.apache.org">Dungeon Project</a>
 */
public class Main {

  /** lowerCase = 'a' .. 'z', '0'..'9', '-' */
  private static final char[] LOWER_CASE =
      { 
            0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0, 
            0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0, 
            0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0, 
            0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0, 
            0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0, 
            0,   0,   0,   0,   0, '-',   0,   0, 
          '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', 
          '8', '9',   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0, 
            0, 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 
          'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 
          'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 
          'x', 'y', 'z',   0,   0,   0,   0,   0, 
            0, 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 
          'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 
          'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 
          'x', 'y', 'z',   0,   0,   0,   0,   0, 
            0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0, 
            0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0, 
            0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0, 
            0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0, 
            0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0, 
            0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0, 
            0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0, 
            0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0 
      };

  /**
   * Rewrote the toLowercase method to improve performances.
   * In Ldap, attributesType are supposed to use ASCII chars :
   * 'a'-'z', 'A'-'Z', '0'-'9', '.' and '-' only.
   * 
   * @param value The String to lowercase
   * @return The lowercase string
   */
  public static final String toLowerCase( String value )
  {
      char[] chars = value.toCharArray();
      
      for ( int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++ )
      {
          chars[i] = LOWER_CASE[ chars[i]];
      }
      
      return new String( chars );
  }

}

   
    
    
  








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