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package org.emau.icmvc.ganimed.deduplication.preprocessing.impl;

/*
 * ###license-information-start###
 * E-PIX - Enterprise Patient Identifier Cross-referencing
 * __
 * Copyright (C) 2009 - 2017 The MOSAIC Project - Institut fuer Community Medicine der
 *                      Universitaetsmedizin Greifswald - mosaic-projekt@uni-greifswald.de
 *                      concept and implementation
 *                      c. schack, d.langner, l. geidel
 *                      web client
 *                      a. blumentritt
 *                      g. weiher
 *                      please cite our publications
 *                      http://dx.doi.org/10.3414/ME14-01-0133
 *                      http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12967-015-0545-6
 * __
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 * 
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 * 
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 * ###license-information-end###
 */

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;

/**
 * 
 * @author Christian Schack
 * @since 2011
 *
 */
public class UniversalStringTransformation {

    /**
     * The method normalizes spaces, turns the string to uppercase representation
     * and normalizes hyphens
     * @param input
     * @return
     */
    public String normalize(String input) {
        // normalize spaces 
        input = StringUtils.normalizeSpace(input);

        input = StringUtils.replace(input, "-", " - ");
        input = StringUtils.replace(input, " - ", "-");

        input = StringUtils.capitalize(input);

        return input;

    }

}