Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * Copyright (C) 2008 The Android Open Source Project * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class Main { private static final Pattern PLAIN_TEXT_TO_ESCAPE = Pattern.compile("[<>&]| {2,}|\r?\n"); /** * Escape some special character as HTML escape sequence. * * @param text Text to be displayed using WebView. * @return Text correctly escaped. */ public static String escapeCharacterToDisplay(String text) { Pattern pattern = PLAIN_TEXT_TO_ESCAPE; Matcher match = pattern.matcher(text); if (match.find()) { StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder(); int end = 0; do { int start = match.start(); out.append(text.substring(end, start)); end = match.end(); int c = text.codePointAt(start); if (c == ' ') { // Escape successive spaces into series of " ". for (int i = 1, n = end - start; i < n; ++i) { out.append(" "); } out.append(' '); } else if (c == '\r' || c == '\n') { out.append("<br>"); } else if (c == '<') { out.append("<"); } else if (c == '>') { out.append(">"); } else if (c == '&') { out.append("&"); } } while (match.find()); out.append(text.substring(end)); text = out.toString(); } return text; } }