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2. Data Type
3. String Escape

Escape commas in the string using the default escape char

       
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import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.util.Collection;


/**
 * General string utils
 */
public class StringUtils {

  final public static char COMMA = ',';
  final public static String COMMA_STR = ",";
  final public static char ESCAPE_CHAR = '\\';
  /**
   * Escape commas in the string using the default escape char
   * @param str a string
   * @return an escaped string
   */
  public static String escapeString(String str) {
    return escapeString(str, ESCAPE_CHAR, COMMA);
  }
  
  /**
   * Escape <code>charToEscape</code> in the string 
   * with the escape char <code>escapeChar</code>
   * 
   * @param str string
   * @param escapeChar escape char
   * @param charToEscape the char to be escaped
   * @return an escaped string
   */
  public static String escapeString(String str, char escapeChar, char charToEscape) {
    if (str == null) {
      return null;
    }
    StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
    for (int i=0; i<str.length(); i++) {
      char curChar = str.charAt(i);
      if (curChar == escapeChar || curChar == charToEscape) {
        // special char
        result.append(escapeChar);
      }
      result.append(curChar);
    }
    return result.toString();
  }
}

   
    
    
    
    
    
    
  

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