Package ubic.basecode.util

Class StringUtil

java.lang.Object

ubic.basecode.util.StringUtil

public class StringUtil
extends Object

Author:

pavlidis

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
StringUtil()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static String	append(String appendee, String appendant, String separator)
static String	commonPrefix(Collection<String> strings)	Given a set of strings, identify any prefix they have in common.
static String	commonSuffix(Collection<String> strings)	Given a set of strings, identify any suffix they have in common.
static boolean	containsValidCharacter(String s)	Checks a string to find "strange" character, used by phenocarta to check evidence description
static String[]	csvSplit(String line)
static String	cvs2tsv(String line)	Made by Nicolas
static boolean	isLatinLetter(char c)
static String	makeValidForR(String s)	Mimics the make.names method in R (character.c) to make valid variables names; we use this for column headers in some output files.
static Long	twoStringHashKey(String stringi, String stringj)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

StringUtil

public StringUtil()

Method Detail

append

public static String append(String appendee,
                            String appendant,
                            String separator)

Parameters:

appendee - The string to be added to

appendant - The string to add to the end of the appendee

separator - The string to put between the joined strings, if necessary.

Returns:

appendee + separator + separator unless appendee is empty, in which case the appendant is returned.

commonPrefix

public static String commonPrefix(Collection<String> strings)

Given a set of strings, identify any prefix they have in common.

Parameters:

strings -

Returns:

the common prefix, null if there isn't one.

commonSuffix

public static String commonSuffix(Collection<String> strings)

Given a set of strings, identify any suffix they have in common.

Parameters:

strings -

Returns:

the commons suffix, null if there isn't one.

containsValidCharacter

public static boolean containsValidCharacter(String s)

Checks a string to find "strange" character, used by phenocarta to check evidence description

Parameters:

the - string to check

Returns:

return false if something strange was found

csvSplit

public static String[] csvSplit(String line)

Parameters:

numFields -

line -

Returns:

cvs2tsv

public static String cvs2tsv(String line)

Made by Nicolas

Parameters:

a - line in a file cvs format

Returns:

the same line but in tsv format

isLatinLetter

public static boolean isLatinLetter(char c)

makeValidForR

public static String makeValidForR(String s)

Mimics the make.names method in R (character.c) to make valid variables names; we use this for column headers in some output files. This doesn't give the exact sames results as R; we avoid repeated '.'.

Parameters:

s -

Returns:

modified string

twoStringHashKey

public static Long twoStringHashKey(String stringi,
                                    String stringj)

Parameters:

stringi -

stringj -

Returns: