Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * Mirakel is an Android App for managing your ToDo-Lists * * Copyright (c) 2013-2015 Anatolij Zelenin, Georg Semmler. * * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. ******************************************************************************/ public class Main { private static String cleanUp(String p) { int oldLenght = p.length(); do { p = p.trim(); oldLenght = p.length(); if ((p.charAt(0) == '(') && (p.charAt(p.length() - 1) == ')')) { p = p.substring(1, p.length() - 1); } } while (oldLenght != p.length()); return p.toLowerCase(); } }