Java Utililty Methods String Clean

List of utility methods to do String Clean

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Description

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Method

StringcleanStringForJavaName(String original)
clean String For Java Name 
if (original == null || original.isEmpty())
    return original;
char[] origChars = original.toCharArray();
char[] cleanChars = new char[origChars.length];
boolean isIdentifierStart = true;
for (int i = 0; i < origChars.length; i++) {
    char curChar = origChars[i];
    if (curChar != '$' && (isIdentifierStart ? Character.isJavaIdentifierStart(curChar)
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StringcleanStringFromWhitespaces(String text)
clean String From Whitespaces 
return text.replaceAll("&nbsp;", " ").trim();
StringcleanText(final String input)
Cleans a string for of insignificant whitespace 
if (input == null)
    return "";
String retValue = input.replaceAll("\\r\\n|\\r|\\n|\\t", " ");
while (retValue.indexOf("  ") != -1)
    retValue = retValue.replaceAll("  ", " ");
return retValue;
StringcleanText(String s)
clean Text 
s = s.trim();
int len = s.length();
StringBuffer cleanValue = new StringBuffer(len);
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
    char ch = s.charAt(i);
    if (ch > 127) {
        System.out.println(
                "WARNING: Non ASCII character " + ch + " (" + (int) ch + ") in following string\n" + s);
...
StringcleanText(String s)
clean Text 
return s.replaceAll("\\W", "");
StringcleanText(String t)
clean Text 
t = t.replaceAll("(,|:|;)", " ");
t = t.replaceAll("  ", " ");
t = t.replaceAll("\\n", " ");
t = t.replaceAll("([\\.]\\s)", ".1. .0. ");
t = t.replaceAll("  ", " ");
t = t.replaceAll("   ", " ");
t = t.trim();
return t;
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StringcleanText(String text)
Clean a string from left-over WikiMarkup (most parsers do not work 100% correct). 
String plainText = text;
plainText = plainText.replaceAll("<.+?>", " ");
plainText = plainText.replaceAll("__.+?__", " ");
plainText = plainText.replaceAll("\\[http.+?\\]", " ");
plainText = plainText.replaceAll("\\{\\|.+?\\|\\}", " ");
plainText = plainText.replaceAll("\\{\\{.+?\\}\\}", " ");
plainText = plainText.replaceAll(" - ", " ");
plainText = plainText.replace('"', ' ');
...
StringcleanText(String text)
clean Text 
if (text.startsWith("define ")) {
    text = text.substring(7, text.length());
return text;
StringcleanText(String text)
removes some non-standard characters from a string 
if (text != null) {
    text = text.replaceAll("&AMP;", "&");
    text = text.replaceAll("_", " ");
    text = text.replaceAll("  ", " ");
return text;
StringcleanText(String text)
Cleans text so it can be shown properly. 
return text.replaceAll("&amp;", "&");