Here you can find the source of escape(String string, String chars)
static String escape(String string, String chars)
//package com.java2s; /*//from w ww . j av a 2 s. co m StringUtils.java Part of GridSweeper Copyright (c) 2006 - 2007 Ed Baskerville <software@edbaskerville.com> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 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. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException; import java.util.*; public class Main { static String escape(String string, String chars) { Map<String, String> replacements = new HashMap<String, String>(); for (int i = 0; i < chars.length(); i++) { String original = chars.substring(i, i + 1); replacements.put(original, escape(original)); } StringBuffer escapedStringBuilder = new StringBuffer(); for (int i = 0; i < string.length(); i++) { String original = string.substring(i, i + 1); if (replacements.containsKey(original)) { escapedStringBuilder.append(replacements.get(original)); } else { escapedStringBuilder.append(original); } } return escapedStringBuilder.toString(); } static String escape(String string) { String escapedString; try { escapedString = java.net.URLEncoder.encode(string, "UTF-8"); } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) { return null; } return escapedString; } }