Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE * file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you 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. */ public class Main { /** * <p> * Removes control characters, including whitespace, from both ends of this String, handling <code>null</code> by * returning an empty String. * </p> * * @param str the String to check * @return the trimmed text (never <code>null</code>) * @see java.lang.String#trim() */ public static String clean(String str) { return (str == null ? "" : str.trim()); } /** * <p> * Removes control characters, including whitespace, from both ends of this String, handling <code>null</code> by * returning <code>null</code>. * </p> * * @param str the String to check * @return the trimmed text (or <code>null</code>) * @see java.lang.String#trim() */ public static String trim(String str) { return (str == null ? null : str.trim()); } }