Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2004, 2007 Boeing. * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * * Contributors: * Boeing - initial API and implementation *******************************************************************************/ import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Collection; import java.util.Iterator; public class Main { /** * An flexible alternative for converting a Collection to a String. * * @param c The Collection to convert to a String * @param start The String to place at the beginning of the returned String * @param separator The String to place in between elements of the Collection c. * @param end The String to place at the end of the returned String * @return A String which starts with 'start', followed by the elements in the Collection c separated by 'separator', * ending with 'end'. */ @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") public static String toString(Collection c, String start, String separator, String end) { Iterator i = c.iterator(); StringBuilder myString = new StringBuilder(); if (start != null) { myString.append(start); } boolean first = true; while (i.hasNext()) { if (!first) { myString.append(separator); } myString.append(i.next().toString()); first = false; } if (end != null) { myString.append(end); } return myString.toString(); } public static String toString(String separator, Object... objects) { Collection<Object> objectsCol = new ArrayList<Object>(objects.length); for (Object obj : objects) { objectsCol.add(obj); } return toString(objectsCol, null, separator, null); } @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") public static String toString(String separator, Collection c) { return toString(c, null, separator, null); } }