Java String Clean cleanText(String text)

Description

Clean a string from left-over WikiMarkup (most parsers do not work 100% correct).

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
text	A string with rests of WikiMarkup.

Return

The cleaned string.

Declaration

public static String cleanText(String text) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*//ww  w.  j  a v a  2  s .  c  om
 * Copyright 2010
 * Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab
 * Technische Universit?t Darmstadt
 *
 * 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.
 */

public class Main {
    /**
     * Clean a string from left-over WikiMarkup (most parsers do not work 100% correct).
     *
     * @param text A string with rests of WikiMarkup.
     * @return The cleaned string.
     */
    public static String cleanText(String text) {
        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('"', ' ');
        plainText = plainText.replace('\'', ' ');
        plainText = plainText.replace('[', ' ');
        plainText = plainText.replace(']', ' ');
        plainText = plainText.replace('=', ' ');
        plainText = plainText.replace('*', ' ');
        plainText = plainText.replace('|', ' ');
        plainText = plainText.replace(':', ' ');
        plainText = plainText.replace('{', ' ');
        plainText = plainText.replace('}', ' ');
        plainText = plainText.replace('(', ' ');
        plainText = plainText.replace(')', ' ');
        plainText = plainText.replaceAll("\\s{2,}", " ");

        return plainText;
    }
}

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