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/******************************************************************************* * Copyright 2017 Capital One Services, LLC and Bitwise, Inc. * 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 hydrograph.ui.common.util; import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils; /** * This class is used to convert hex-value into its equivalent character. * * @author Bitwise * */ public class ConvertHexValues { /** * This method converts input hex-value into its equivalent character. * * @param input * , hex-value e.g. \x21 for ! * @return string, if given input is valid hex-value then its equivalent character is returned else input is * returned as it is. */ public static String parseHex(String input) { final int NO_OF_DIGITS = 2; if (StringUtils.isBlank(input) || StringUtils.length(input) < NO_OF_DIGITS + 2) return input; // Added support for \\t if (input.contains("\\t")) { input = input.replace("\\t", "\\x09"); } String[] tokens = input.split("\\\\x"); String hex; String temp; boolean startsWithHex = input.startsWith("\\x"); for (int counter = 0; counter < tokens.length; counter++) { if (counter == 0 && !startsWithHex) continue; if (tokens[counter].equals("")) continue; temp = tokens[counter]; hex = temp.substring(0, NO_OF_DIGITS); temp = temp.substring(NO_OF_DIGITS, temp.length()); try { tokens[counter] = hexToChar(hex) + temp; } catch (NumberFormatException numberFormatException) { tokens[counter] = hex + temp; } } String result = ""; for (String token : tokens) { result = result + token; } return result; } // Parses the string argument as a signed short in the radix specified by the second argument. private static char hexToChar(String hex) throws NumberFormatException { return (char) Short.parseShort(hex, 16); } }