Java String Remove removePunctuation(String value)

Description

remove Punctuation

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String removePunctuation(String value) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/* MarcWorx MARC Library - Utilities for manipulation of MARC records
 Copyright (C) 2013  Todd Walker, Talwood Solutions

 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.//  w  w  w .java 2  s . c  o m

 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 General Public License for more details.

 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

import java.util.Arrays;

public class Main {
    public final static char DECIMAL_POINT = 0x002E;

    public static String removePunctuation(String value) {
        return removePunctuation(value, null);
    }

    public static String removePunctuation(String value, char exceptions[]) {
        if (value == null) {
            return "";
        }

        if (exceptions != null) {
            // Must not assume we can modify the character array passed into us
            // must make a copy....
            char copy[] = new char[exceptions.length];
            System.arraycopy(exceptions, 0, copy, 0, exceptions.length);
            exceptions = copy;
            Arrays.sort(exceptions);
        }

        boolean exception = false;
        StringBuilder filteredBuffer = new StringBuilder(value.length());

        for (int i = 0; i < value.length(); i++) {
            char testChar = value.charAt(i);

            if (exceptions != null) {
                exception = (Arrays.binarySearch(exceptions, testChar) >= 0);
            }

            if (exception || Character.isLetterOrDigit(testChar)
                    || testChar == DECIMAL_POINT
                    || Character.isWhitespace(testChar)) {
                filteredBuffer.append(testChar);
            }
        }
        return filteredBuffer.toString();
    }

    public static int length(String source) {
        int result = 0;
        if (isNotEmpty(source)) {
            result = source.length();
        }
        return result;
    }

    public static boolean isNotEmpty(String str) {
        return !isEmpty(str);
    }

    public static boolean isEmpty(String str) {
        return (str == null || str.length() == 0);
    }
}

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