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+/*******************************************************************************\r
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, 2010 Association for Decentralized Information Management\r
+ * in Industry THTH ry.\r
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials\r
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0\r
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at\r
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html\r
+ *\r
+ * Contributors:\r
+ * VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - initial API and implementation\r
+ *******************************************************************************/\r
+package org.simantics.utils.strings;\r
+\r
+import java.text.DecimalFormat;\r
+import java.text.NumberFormat;\r
+import java.text.ParseException;\r
+import java.util.Locale;\r
+\r
+public class StringUtils {\r
+\r
+ private static NumberFormat usFormat = DecimalFormat.getInstance(Locale.US);\r
+ public final static String ZERO_LENGTH_STRING = ""; //$NON-NLS-1$\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Ensures that a string is not null. Converts null strings into empty\r
+ * strings, and leaves any other string unmodified. Use this to help\r
+ * wrap calls to methods that return null instead of the empty string.\r
+ * Can also help protect against implementation errors in methods that\r
+ * are not supposed to return null. \r
+ * \r
+ * @param input input string (may be null)\r
+ * @return input if not null, or the empty string if input is null\r
+ */\r
+ public static String safeString(String input) {\r
+ if (input != null) {\r
+ return input;\r
+ }\r
+\r
+ return ZERO_LENGTH_STRING;\r
+ }\r
+ \r
+\r
+ public static double safeDouble(String input) {\r
+\r
+ if(input == null) return Double.NaN;\r
+ \r
+ try {\r
+\r
+ String usafied = input.replace(",", ".");\r
+ Number number = usFormat.parse(usafied);\r
+ return number.doubleValue();\r
+ \r
+ } catch (ParseException e) {\r
+ \r
+ return Double.NaN;\r
+ \r
+ }\r
+ \r
+ }\r
+ \r
+ public static String repeat(String pattern, int repeatCount)\r
+ {\r
+ StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(pattern.length() * repeatCount);\r
+ for (int i=0; i<repeatCount; i++)\r
+ sb.append(pattern);\r
+ return sb.toString();\r
+ }\r
+ \r
+}\r