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/* * Copyright 2013-2016 the original author or authors. * * Licensed 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. */ package gov.nyc.doitt.gis.geoclient.parser.token; import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils; public class TextUtils { public static String sanitize(String s) { if (s == null || s.isEmpty()) { return s; } // Remove leading and trailing spaces or punctuation (except for trailing //period characters (eg, N.Y.) String clean = StringUtils.removePattern(s, "^(?:\\s|\\p{Punct})+|(?:\\s|[\\p{Punct}&&[^.]])+$"); // Make sure ampersand is surrounded by spaces but allow double ampersand clean = clean.replaceAll("([^\\s&])\\&", "$1 &"); clean = clean.replaceAll("\\&([^\\s&])", "& $1"); // Normalize whitespace clean = StringUtils.normalizeSpace(clean); return clean; } }