java.lang.Object
- org.jivesoftware.util.StringUtils

```
public final class StringUtils
extends Object
```
Utility class to perform common String manipulation algorithms.

Method Summary

All Methods Static Methods Concrete Methods Deprecated Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`static String`	`abbreviate(String str, int maxWidth)`	Abbreviates a string to a specified length and then adds an ellipsis if the input is greater than the maxWidth.
`static String`	`chopAtWord(String string, int length)`	Intelligently chops a String at a word boundary (whitespace) that occurs at the specified index in the argument or before.
`static String`	`collectionToString(Collection<String> collection)`	Returns a collection of Strings as a comma-delimitted list of strings.
`static boolean`	`contains(String[] array, String item)`	Returns true if the given string is in the given array.
`static boolean`	`containsIgnoringCase(String nullableString, String value)`
`static String`	`dateToMillis(Date date)`	Formats a Date as a fifteen character long String made up of the Date's padded millisecond value.
`static byte[]`	`decodeBase32(String data)`	Decodes a base32 String using the base32hex profile.
`static byte[]`	`decodeBase64(String data)`	Decodes a base64 String.
`static byte[]`	`decodeHex(String hex)`	Turns a hex encoded string into a byte array.
`static String`	`encodeBase32(byte[] data)`	Encodes a byte array into a base32 String using the base32hex profile.
`static String`	`encodeBase32(String data)`	Encodes a String as a base32 String using the base32hex profile.
`static String`	`encodeBase64(byte[] data)`	Encodes a byte array into a base64 String.
`static String`	`encodeBase64(String data)`	Encodes a String as a base64 String.
`static String`	`encodeHex(byte[] bytes)`	Turns an array of bytes into a String representing each byte as an unsigned hex number.
`static String`	`escapeForSQL(String string)`	Escapes all necessary characters in the String so that it can be used in SQL
`static String`	`escapeForXML(String string)`	Escapes all necessary characters in the String so that it can be used in an XML doc.
`static String`	`escapeHTMLTags(String in)`	This method takes a string which may contain HTML tags (ie, <b>, <table>, etc) and converts the '<' and '>' characters to their HTML escape sequences.
`static String`	`escapeHTMLTags(String in, boolean includeLF)`	This method takes a string which may contain HTML tags (ie, <b>, <table>, etc) and converts the '<' and '>' characters to their HTML escape sequences.
`static byte[]`	`getBytes(String input)`	Deprecated. Use `input.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)`
`static String`	`getElapsedTime(long delta)`	Returns a textual representation for the time that has elapsed.
`static String`	`getFullElapsedTime(long delta)`	Returns a textual representation for the time that has elapsed.
`static String`	`getFullElapsedTime(Duration delta)`	Returns a textual representation for the time that has elapsed.
`static String`	`getString(byte[] input)`	Deprecated. Use `new String(input, StandardCharsets.UTF_8)`
`static String`	`getTimeFromLong(long diff)`	Returns a formatted String from time.
`static String`	`hash(byte[] bytes, String algorithm)`	Hashes a byte array using the specified algorithm and returns the result as a String of hexadecimal numbers.
`static String`	`hash(String data)`	Hashes a String using the Md5 algorithm and returns the result as a String of hexadecimal numbers.
`static String`	`hash(String data, String algorithm)`	Hashes a String using the specified algorithm and returns the result as a String of hexadecimal numbers.
`static boolean`	`isBase32(String data)`	Validates a string to ensure all its bytes are in the Base32 alphabet.
`static boolean`	`isValidEmailAddress(String address)`	Returns true if the string passed in is a valid Email address.
`static Optional<Boolean>`	`parseBoolean(String value)`	Parses a boolean.
`static Optional<Double>`	`parseDouble(String value)`
`static Optional<Integer>`	`parseInteger(String value)`
`static Optional<Long>`	`parseLong(String value)`
`static String`	`randomString(int length)`	Returns a random String of numbers and letters (lower and upper case) of the specified length.
`static String`	`removeXSSCharacters(String input)`	Removes characters likely to enable Cross Site Scripting attacks from the provided input string.
`static String`	`replace(String string, String oldString, String newString)`	Deprecated. Use `String.replaceAll(String, String)`}
`static String`	`replace(String line, String oldString, String newString, int[] count)`	Replaces all instances of oldString with newString in line.
`static String`	`replaceIgnoreCase(String line, String oldString, String newString)`	Replaces all instances of oldString with newString in line with the added feature that matches of newString in oldString ignore case.
`static String`	`replaceIgnoreCase(String line, String oldString, String newString, int[] count)`	Replaces all instances of oldString with newString in line with the added feature that matches of newString in oldString ignore case.
`static List<String>`	`shellSplit(CharSequence string)`	Simple Java program to tokenize string as a shell would - similar to shlex in Python
`static Collection<String>`	`stringToCollection(String string)`	Returns a comma-delimitted list of Strings as a Collection.
`static String`	`stripTags(String in)`	This method takes a string and strips out all tags except tags while still leaving the tag body intact.
`static String[]`	`toLowerCaseWordArray(String text)`	Converts a line of text into an array of lower case words using a BreakIterator.wordInstance().
`static String`	`unescapeFromXML(String string)`	Unescapes the String by converting XML escape sequences back into normal characters.
`static String`	`validateDomainName(String domain)`	Returns a valid domain name, possibly as an ACE-encoded IDN (per RFC 3490).
`static String`	`wordWrap(String input, int width, Locale locale)`	Reformats a string where lines that are longer than `width` are split apart at the earliest wordbreak or at maxLength, whichever is sooner.
`static String`	`zeroPadString(String string, int length)`	Pads the supplied String with 0's to the specified length and returns the result as a new String.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Method Detail
  - replace
```
@Deprecated
public static String replace(String string,
                             String oldString,
                             String newString)
```
    Deprecated.
    Use String.replaceAll(String, String)}
    
    Replaces all instances of oldString with newString in string.
    
    Parameters:
    
    string - the String to search to perform replacements on.
    
    oldString - the String that should be replaced by newString.
    
    newString - the String that will replace all instances of oldString.
    
    Returns:
    
    a String will all instances of oldString replaced by newString.
  - replaceIgnoreCase
```
public static String replaceIgnoreCase(String line,
                                       String oldString,
                                       String newString)
```
    Replaces all instances of oldString with newString in line with the added feature that matches of newString in oldString ignore case.
    
    Parameters:
    
    line - the String to search to perform replacements on
    
    oldString - the String that should be replaced by newString
    
    newString - the String that will replace all instances of oldString
    
    Returns:
    
    a String will all instances of oldString replaced by newString
  - replaceIgnoreCase
```
public static String replaceIgnoreCase(String line,
                                       String oldString,
                                       String newString,
                                       int[] count)
```
    Replaces all instances of oldString with newString in line with the added feature that matches of newString in oldString ignore case. The count paramater is set to the number of replaces performed.
    
    Parameters:
    
    line - the String to search to perform replacements on
    
    oldString - the String that should be replaced by newString
    
    newString - the String that will replace all instances of oldString
    
    count - a value that will be updated with the number of replaces performed.
    
    Returns:
    
    a String will all instances of oldString replaced by newString
  - replace
```
public static String replace(String line,
                             String oldString,
                             String newString,
                             int[] count)
```
    Replaces all instances of oldString with newString in line. The count Integer is updated with number of replaces.
    
    Parameters:
    
    line - the String to search to perform replacements on.
    
    oldString - the String that should be replaced by newString.
    
    newString - the String that will replace all instances of oldString.
    
    count - a single element array that, after running, will contain the number of matching items
    
    Returns:
    
    a String will all instances of oldString replaced by newString.
  - stripTags
```
public static String stripTags(String in)
```
    This method takes a string and strips out all tags except
    tags while still leaving the tag body intact.
    
    Parameters:
    
    in - the text to be converted.
    
    Returns:
    
    the input string with all tags removed.
  - escapeHTMLTags
```
public static String escapeHTMLTags(String in)
```
    This method takes a string which may contain HTML tags (ie, <b>, <table>, etc) and converts the '<' and '>' characters to their HTML escape sequences. It will also replace LF with <br>.
    
    Parameters:
    
    in - the text to be converted.
    
    Returns:
    
    the input string with the characters '<' and '>' replaced with their HTML escape sequences.
  - escapeHTMLTags
```
public static String escapeHTMLTags(String in,
                                    boolean includeLF)
```
    This method takes a string which may contain HTML tags (ie, <b>, <table>, etc) and converts the '<' and '>' characters to their HTML escape sequences.
    
    Parameters:
    
    in - the text to be converted.
    
    includeLF - set to true to replace \n with
    .
    
    Returns:
    
    the input string with the characters '<' and '>' replaced with their HTML escape sequences.
  - hash
```
public static String hash(String data)
```
    Hashes a String using the Md5 algorithm and returns the result as a String of hexadecimal numbers. This method is synchronized to avoid excessive MessageDigest object creation. If calling this method becomes a bottleneck in your code, you may wish to maintain a pool of MessageDigest objects instead of using this method.
    A hash is a one-way function -- that is, given an input, an output is easily computed. However, given the output, the input is almost impossible to compute. This is useful for passwords since we can store the hash and a hacker will then have a very hard time determining the original password.
    
    In Jive, every time a user logs in, we simply take their plain text password, compute the hash, and compare the generated hash to the stored hash. Since it is almost impossible that two passwords will generate the same hash, we know if the user gave us the correct password or not. The only negative to this system is that password recovery is basically impossible. Therefore, a reset password method is used instead.
    
    Parameters:
    
    data - the String to compute the hash of.
    
    Returns:
    
    a hashed version of the passed-in String
  - hash
```
public static String hash(String data,
                          String algorithm)
```
    Hashes a String using the specified algorithm and returns the result as a String of hexadecimal numbers. This method is synchronized to avoid excessive MessageDigest object creation. If calling this method becomes a bottleneck in your code, you may wish to maintain a pool of MessageDigest objects instead of using this method.
    A hash is a one-way function -- that is, given an input, an output is easily computed. However, given the output, the input is almost impossible to compute. This is useful for passwords since we can store the hash and a hacker will then have a very hard time determining the original password.
    
    In Jive, every time a user logs in, we simply take their plain text password, compute the hash, and compare the generated hash to the stored hash. Since it is almost impossible that two passwords will generate the same hash, we know if the user gave us the correct password or not. The only negative to this system is that password recovery is basically impossible. Therefore, a reset password method is used instead.
    
    Parameters:
    
    data - the String to compute the hash of.
    
    algorithm - the name of the algorithm requested.
    
    Returns:
    
    a hashed version of the passed-in String
  - hash
```
public static String hash(byte[] bytes,
                          String algorithm)
```
    Hashes a byte array using the specified algorithm and returns the result as a String of hexadecimal numbers. This method is synchronized to avoid excessive MessageDigest object creation. If calling this method becomes a bottleneck in your code, you may wish to maintain a pool of MessageDigest objects instead of using this method.
    A hash is a one-way function -- that is, given an input, an output is easily computed. However, given the output, the input is almost impossible to compute. This is useful for passwords since we can store the hash and a hacker will then have a very hard time determining the original password.
    
    In Jive, every time a user logs in, we simply take their plain text password, compute the hash, and compare the generated hash to the stored hash. Since it is almost impossible that two passwords will generate the same hash, we know if the user gave us the correct password or not. The only negative to this system is that password recovery is basically impossible. Therefore, a reset password method is used instead.
    
    Parameters:
    
    bytes - the byte array to compute the hash of.
    
    algorithm - the name of the algorithm requested.
    
    Returns:
    
    a hashed version of the passed-in String
  - encodeHex
```
public static String encodeHex(byte[] bytes)
```
    Turns an array of bytes into a String representing each byte as an unsigned hex number.
    
    Parameters:
    
    bytes - an array of bytes to convert to a hex-string
    
    Returns:
    
    generated hex string
  - decodeHex
```
public static byte[] decodeHex(String hex)
```
    Turns a hex encoded string into a byte array. It is specifically meant to "reverse" the toHex(byte[]) method.
    
    Parameters:
    
    hex - a hex encoded String to transform into a byte array.
    
    Returns:
    
    a byte array representing the hex String[
  - encodeBase64
```
public static String encodeBase64(String data)
```
    Encodes a String as a base64 String.
    
    Parameters:
    
    data - a String to encode.
    
    Returns:
    
    a base64 encoded String.
  - encodeBase64
```
public static String encodeBase64(byte[] data)
```
    Encodes a byte array into a base64 String.
    
    Parameters:
    
    data - a byte array to encode.
    
    Returns:
    
    a base64 encode String.
  - decodeBase64
```
public static byte[] decodeBase64(String data)
```
    Decodes a base64 String.
    
    Parameters:
    
    data - a base64 encoded String to decode.
    
    Returns:
    
    the decoded String.
  - encodeBase32
```
public static String encodeBase32(String data)
```
    Encodes a String as a base32 String using the base32hex profile.
    
    Parameters:
    
    data - a String to encode.
    
    Returns:
    
    a base32 encoded String.
  - encodeBase32
```
public static String encodeBase32(byte[] data)
```
    Encodes a byte array into a base32 String using the base32hex profile. Implementation is case-insensitive and returns encoded strings in lower case.
    
    Parameters:
    
    data - a byte array to encode.
    
    Returns:
    
    a base32 encode String.
  - decodeBase32
```
public static byte[] decodeBase32(String data)
```
    Decodes a base32 String using the base32hex profile. Implementation is case-insensitive and converts the given string to upper case before decoding.
    
    Parameters:
    
    data - a base32 encoded String to decode.
    
    Returns:
    
    the decoded String.
  - isBase32
```
public static boolean isBase32(String data)
```
    Validates a string to ensure all its bytes are in the Base32 alphabet. Implementation is case-insensitive and converts the given string to upper case before evaluating.
    
    Parameters:
    
    data - the string to test
    
    Returns:
    
    True if the given string can be decoded using Base32
  - toLowerCaseWordArray
```
public static String[] toLowerCaseWordArray(String text)
```
    Converts a line of text into an array of lower case words using a BreakIterator.wordInstance().
    This method is under the Jive Open Source Software License and was written by Mark Imbriaco.
    
    Parameters:
    
    text - a String of text to convert into an array of words
    
    Returns:
    
    text broken up into an array of words.
  - randomString
```
public static String randomString(int length)
```
    Returns a random String of numbers and letters (lower and upper case) of the specified length. The method uses a cryptographically strong random number generator as provided by SecureRandom
    The specified length must be at least one. If not, the method will return null.
    
    Parameters:
    
    length - the desired length of the random String to return.
    
    Returns:
    
    a random String of numbers and letters of the specified length.
  - chopAtWord
```
public static String chopAtWord(String string,
                                int length)
```
    Intelligently chops a String at a word boundary (whitespace) that occurs at the specified index in the argument or before. However, if there is a newline character before length, the String will be chopped there. If no newline or whitespace is found in string up to the index length, the String will chopped at length.
    For example, chopAtWord("This is a nice String", 10) will return "This is a" which is the first word boundary less than or equal to 10 characters into the original String.
    
    Parameters:
    
    string - the String to chop.
    
    length - the index in string to start looking for a whitespace boundary at.
    
    Returns:
    
    a substring of string whose length is less than or equal to length, and that is chopped at whitespace.
  - wordWrap
```
public static String wordWrap(String input,
                              int width,
                              Locale locale)
```
    Reformats a string where lines that are longer than width are split apart at the earliest wordbreak or at maxLength, whichever is sooner. If the width specified is less than 5 or greater than the input Strings length the string will be returned as is.
    Please note that this method can be lossy - trailing spaces on wrapped lines may be trimmed.
    
    Parameters:
    
    input - the String to reformat.
    
    width - the maximum length of any one line.
    
    locale - the local
    
    Returns:
    
    a new String with reformatted as needed.
  - escapeForSQL
```
public static String escapeForSQL(String string)
```
    Escapes all necessary characters in the String so that it can be used in SQL
    
    Parameters:
    
    string - the string to escape.
    
    Returns:
    
    the string with appropriate characters escaped.
  - escapeForXML
```
public static String escapeForXML(String string)
```
    Escapes all necessary characters in the String so that it can be used in an XML doc.
    
    Parameters:
    
    string - the string to escape.
    
    Returns:
    
    the string with appropriate characters escaped.
  - unescapeFromXML
```
public static String unescapeFromXML(String string)
```
    Unescapes the String by converting XML escape sequences back into normal characters.
    
    Parameters:
    
    string - the string to unescape.
    
    Returns:
    
    the string with appropriate characters unescaped.
  - zeroPadString
```
public static String zeroPadString(String string,
                                   int length)
```
    Pads the supplied String with 0's to the specified length and returns the result as a new String. For example, if the initial String is "9999" and the desired length is 8, the result would be "00009999". This type of padding is useful for creating numerical values that need to be stored and sorted as character data. Note: the current implementation of this method allows for a maximum length of 64.
    
    Parameters:
    
    string - the original String to pad.
    
    length - the desired length of the new padded String.
    
    Returns:
    
    a new String padded with the required number of 0's.
  - dateToMillis
```
public static String dateToMillis(Date date)
```
    Formats a Date as a fifteen character long String made up of the Date's padded millisecond value.
    
    Parameters:
    
    date - the date to encode
    
    Returns:
    
    a Date encoded as a String.
  - getFullElapsedTime
```
public static String getFullElapsedTime(long delta)
```
    Returns a textual representation for the time that has elapsed.
    
    Parameters:
    
    delta - the elapsed time in milliseconds
    
    Returns:
    
    textual representation for the time that has elapsed.
  - getFullElapsedTime
```
public static String getFullElapsedTime(Duration delta)
```
    Returns a textual representation for the time that has elapsed.
    
    Parameters:
    
    delta - the elapsed time.
    
    Returns:
    
    textual representation for the time that has elapsed.
  - getElapsedTime
```
public static String getElapsedTime(long delta)
```
    Returns a textual representation for the time that has elapsed.
    
    Parameters:
    
    delta - the elapsed time in milliseconds.
    
    Returns:
    
    textual representation for the time that has elapsed.
  - getTimeFromLong
```
public static String getTimeFromLong(long diff)
```
    Returns a formatted String from time.
    
    Parameters:
    
    diff - the amount of elapsed time.
    
    Returns:
    
    the formatte String.
  - collectionToString
```
public static String collectionToString(Collection<String> collection)
```
    Returns a collection of Strings as a comma-delimitted list of strings.
    
    Parameters:
    
    collection - the collection of strings
    
    Returns:
    
    a String representing the Collection.
  - stringToCollection
```
public static Collection<String> stringToCollection(String string)
```
    Returns a comma-delimitted list of Strings as a Collection.
    
    Parameters:
    
    string - the string to split
    
    Returns:
    
    a Collection representing the String.
  - contains
```
public static boolean contains(String[] array,
                               String item)
```
    Returns true if the given string is in the given array.
    
    Parameters:
    
    array - an array of Strings to check
    
    item - the item to look for
    
    Returns:
    
    true if the array contains the item
  - abbreviate
```
public static String abbreviate(String str,
                                int maxWidth)
```
    Abbreviates a string to a specified length and then adds an ellipsis if the input is greater than the maxWidth. Example input:
    user1@jivesoftware.com/home
    and a maximum length of 20 characters, the abbreviate method will return:
    user1@jivesoftware.c...
    Parameters:
    
    str - the String to abbreviate.
    
    maxWidth - the maximum size of the string, minus the ellipsis.
    
    Returns:
    
    the abbreviated String, or null if the string was null.
  - isValidEmailAddress
```
public static boolean isValidEmailAddress(String address)
```
    Returns true if the string passed in is a valid Email address.
    
    Parameters:
    
    address - Email address to test for validity.
    
    Returns:
    
    true if the string passed in is a valid email address.
  - validateDomainName
```
public static String validateDomainName(String domain)
```
    Returns a valid domain name, possibly as an ACE-encoded IDN (per RFC 3490).
    
    Parameters:
    
    domain - Proposed domain name
    
    Returns:
    
    The validated domain name, possibly ACE-encoded
    
    Throws:
    
    IllegalArgumentException - The given domain name is not valid
  - removeXSSCharacters
```
public static String removeXSSCharacters(String input)
```
    Removes characters likely to enable Cross Site Scripting attacks from the provided input string. The characters that are removed from the input string, if present, are:
    < > " ' % ; ) ( & + -
    Parameters:
    
    input - the string to be scrubbed
    
    Returns:
    
    Input without certain characters;
  - getBytes
```
@Deprecated
public static byte[] getBytes(String input)
```
    Deprecated.
    Use input.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)
    
    Returns the UTF-8 bytes for the given String.
    
    Parameters:
    
    input - The source string
    
    Returns:
    
    The UTF-8 encoding for the given string
  - getString
```
@Deprecated
public static String getString(byte[] input)
```
    Deprecated.
    Use new String(input, StandardCharsets.UTF_8)
    
    Returns the UTF-8 String for the given byte array.
    
    Parameters:
    
    input - The source byte array
    
    Returns:
    
    The UTF-8 encoded String for the given byte array
  - containsIgnoringCase
```
public static boolean containsIgnoringCase(String nullableString,
                                           String value)
```
    Parameters:
    
    nullableString - the string to check
    
    value - the string to match against
    
    Returns:
    
    true is nullableString is not null and contains the supplied value, otherwise false
  - parseInteger
```
public static Optional<Integer> parseInteger(String value)
```
  - parseLong
```
public static Optional<Long> parseLong(String value)
```
  - parseDouble
```
public static Optional<Double> parseDouble(String value)
```
  - parseBoolean
```
public static Optional<Boolean> parseBoolean(String value)
```
    Parses a boolean. Subtly different from Boolean.parseBoolean in that it returns Optional.empty() instead of false if the supplied value is not "true" or "false" (ignoring case)
    
    Parameters:
    
    value - Any string value
    
    Returns:
    
    true, false or Optional.empty()
  - shellSplit
```
public static List<String> shellSplit(CharSequence string)
```
    Simple Java program to tokenize string as a shell would - similar to shlex in Python
    
    Parameters:
    
    string - The string to be split.
    
    Returns:
    
    The splitted string.
    
    See Also:
    
    https://gist.github.com/raymyers/8077031

Class StringUtils

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

Method Detail

replace

replaceIgnoreCase

replaceIgnoreCase

replace

stripTags

escapeHTMLTags

escapeHTMLTags

hash

hash

hash

encodeHex

decodeHex

encodeBase64

encodeBase64

decodeBase64

encodeBase32

encodeBase32

decodeBase32

isBase32

toLowerCaseWordArray

randomString

chopAtWord

wordWrap

escapeForSQL

escapeForXML

unescapeFromXML

zeroPadString

dateToMillis

getFullElapsedTime

getFullElapsedTime

getElapsedTime

getTimeFromLong

collectionToString

stringToCollection

contains

abbreviate

isValidEmailAddress

validateDomainName

removeXSSCharacters

getBytes

getString

containsIgnoringCase

parseInteger

parseLong

parseDouble

parseBoolean

shellSplit