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/**********************************************************************
Copyright (c) 2003 Andy Jefferson and others. All rights reserved. 
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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Contributors:
2003 Erik Bengtson - moved replaceAll from Column class to here
2004 Andy Jefferson - moved intArrayToString, booleanArrayToString from SM
2007 Xuan Baldauf - toJVMIDString hex fix
...
**********************************************************************/

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.net.URLDecoder;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.util.jar.JarFile;

/**
 * Utilities for String manipulation.
 *
 * @version $Revision: 1.23 $   
 **/
public class StringUtils {
    /**
     * Convert an exception to a String with full stack trace
     * @param ex the exception
     * @return a String with the full stacktrace error text
     */
    public static String getStringFromStackTrace(Throwable ex) {
        if (ex == null) {
            return "";
        }
        StringWriter str = new StringWriter();
        PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(str);
        try {
            ex.printStackTrace(writer);
            return str.getBuffer().toString();
        } finally {
            try {
                str.close();
                writer.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                //ignore
            }
        }
    }
}