Java Collection Convert toEscapedStringWithDelimiters(Collection objects, String delim)

Description

to Escaped String With Delimiters

License

LGPL

Declaration

public static String toEscapedStringWithDelimiters(Collection objects, String delim) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: LGPL 

import java.util.*;

public class Main {
    public static String toEscapedStringWithDelimiters(Collection objects, String delim) {
        StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
        int index = 0;
        for (Object obj : objects) {
            if (index++ > 0)
                buffer.append(delim);/*ww  w .  jav a 2  s.c  o  m*/
            String string = obj.toString();
            if (string.startsWith("\"") && string.endsWith("\"")) {
                if (string.length() <= 2)
                    string = "\" \" ";
                else
                    string = "\"" + replaceQuotationMarks(string.substring(1, string.length() - 1)) + "\"";
            }
            buffer.append(string);
        }
        return buffer.toString();
    }

    public static String replaceQuotationMarks(String s) {
        if (s.contains("\"")) {
            return s.replaceAll("[\"]", "''");
        }
        return s;
    }
}

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