Java String Chop chopTrailingChars(String source, char[] chars)

Declaration

public static String chopTrailingChars(String source, char[] chars) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from  w  w  w .j av a2  s .  c  om*/
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public class Main {
    /**
     * @param source Source string
     * @param chars  Symbols to be trimmed
     * @return string without all specified chars at the end. For example,
     *         <code>chopTrailingChars("c:\\my_directory\\//\\",new char[]{'\\'}) is <code>"c:\\my_directory\\//"</code>,
     *         <code>chopTrailingChars("c:\\my_directory\\//\\",new char[]{'\\','/'}) is <code>"c:\my_directory"</code>.
     *         Actually this method can be used to normalize file names to chop trailing separator chars.
     */
    public static String chopTrailingChars(String source, char[] chars) {
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(source);
        while (true) {
            boolean atLeastOneCharWasChopped = false;
            for (int i = 0; i < chars.length && sb.length() > 0; i++) {
                if (sb.charAt(sb.length() - 1) == chars[i]) {
                    sb.deleteCharAt(sb.length() - 1);
                    atLeastOneCharWasChopped = true;
                }
            }
            if (!atLeastOneCharWasChopped) {
                break;
            }
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }
}

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