Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2010 BSI Business Systems Integration AG. * 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: * BSI Business Systems Integration AG - initial API and implementation ******************************************************************************/ import java.util.Collection; import java.util.Iterator; public class Main { /** * @see #format(Collection, String, boolean) */ public static <T> String format(Collection<T> list, String delimiter) { return format(list, delimiter, false); } /** * @see #format(Collection, String, boolean) */ public static String format(Collection<?> list) { return format(list, false); } /** * @see #format(Collection, String, boolean) */ public static <T> String format(Collection<T> c, boolean quoteStrings) { return format(c, ", ", quoteStrings); } /** * To get a string representation of a collection. * * @param list * input list * @param delimiter * the separator used between elements * @param quoteStrings * <code>true</code> to get quoted representations of all not numbers. * @return a string representation of the given collection. */ public static <T> String format(Collection<T> list, String delimiter, boolean quoteStrings) { if (isEmpty(list)) { return ""; } StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(); Iterator<T> it = list.iterator(); // first result.append(objectToString(it.next(), quoteStrings)); // rest while (it.hasNext()) { result.append(delimiter); result.append(objectToString(it.next(), quoteStrings)); } return result.toString(); } public static boolean isEmpty(Collection<?> c) { return c == null || c.isEmpty(); } private static String objectToString(Object o, boolean quoteStrings) { if (o == null) { return "null"; } if (o instanceof Number) { return o.toString(); } if (quoteStrings) { return "'" + o.toString().replaceAll(",", "%2C") + "'"; } else { return o.toString(); } } }