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Removes newline, carriage return and tab characters from a string

        

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import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;

/**
 * Utility methods for strings.
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:jboner@codehaus.org">Jonas Bonr </a>
 */
public class Strings {


    /**
     * Removes newline, carriage return and tab characters from a string.
     *
     * @param toBeEscaped string to escape
     * @return the escaped string
     */
    public static String removeFormattingCharacters(final String toBeEscaped) {
        StringBuffer escapedBuffer = new StringBuffer();
        for (int i = 0; i < toBeEscaped.length(); i++) {
            if ((toBeEscaped.charAt(i) != '\n') && (toBeEscaped.charAt(i) != '\r') && (toBeEscaped.charAt(i) != '\t')) {
                escapedBuffer.append(toBeEscaped.charAt(i));
            }
        }
        String s = escapedBuffer.toString();
        return s;//
        // Strings.replaceSubString(s, "\"", "")
    }

   
}








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