Java Utililty Methods Path String Clean

List of utility methods to do Path String Clean

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The list of methods to do Path String Clean are organized into topic(s).

Method

StringcleanPath(String path, boolean trimStartSeparator)
clean Path 
path = path.replaceAll("[/\\\\]+", "/");
if (trimStartSeparator) {
    path = path.replaceFirst("^/+", "");
return path;
StringcleanPath(String s)
clean Path 
String retval = s.replace('\\', '_');
retval = retval.replace(':', '_');
retval = retval.replace('/', '_');
return retval;
StringcleanPath(String sText, boolean isWindows)
Clean path if not correct for the platform 
if (sText == null || sText.equals(""))
    return "";
if (sText.startsWith("http://") || sText.startsWith("https://"))
    return sText;
String sFS = System.getProperty("file.separator");
if (isWindows) {
    sText = replace(sText, '/', sFS);
} else {
...
StringcleanPathSegment(final String toClean)
Removes characters that aren't acceptable in a file path (mostly for windows). 
final String cleaned = toClean.replaceAll("[.\\\\/:*?\"<>|\\[\\]\\(\\)]", "");
if (cleaned.length() == 0)
    throw new IllegalStateException(
            "Path segment " + toClean + " has not valid characters and is thus empty");
return cleaned;
StringfilePathReplaceAll(String value)
file Path Replace All 
String returnValue = value;
if (returnValue == null || returnValue.trim().equals("")) {
    return "";
returnValue = returnValue.replaceAll("/", "");
returnValue = returnValue.replaceAll("\\", "");
returnValue = returnValue.replaceAll("\\.\\.", ""); 
returnValue = returnValue.replaceAll("&", "");
...
StringfilePathTail(String filePath)
returns the component of the url after the last / OR \ 
String t = tail(filePath, "/");
t = tail(t, "\\");
return t;