Java Utililty Methods String Strip

String collectionToString(Collection collection, boolean stripPackageNames)
Creates a string representation of the given argument array.

return collectionToString(collection, stripPackageNames, null);

String strip(final String s)
Strips undisplayable characters from the String

return strip(s, false, HANDLE_UNKNOWN_INCLUDE);

String[] strip(String string, String token)
strip

StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(string, token);
List<String> result = new ArrayList<String>();
while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
 result.add((String) st.nextElement());
return result.toArray(new String[0]);

String stripBadHTMLTags(String s)
strip Bad HTML Tags

final StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(s);
final Vector quotes = new Vector();
int i = -1;
int start = -1;
StringBuffer bit = null;
String lastTag = null;
while ((++i) < buf.length()) {
 switch (buf.charAt(i)) {
...

String stripClassFromClassName(String className)
Find the package specifier for a given class name.

int pos = className.lastIndexOf('.');
if (pos > 0) {
 return className.substring(0, pos);
return "";

String stripExtension(String filename)
strip Extension

final String SEPARATOR = "."; 
final StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(filename, SEPARATOR);
return tokenizer.nextToken();

String stripLastElement(String str)
strip Last Element

String last = getLastElement(str);
if (last.length() > 0) {
 int index = str.lastIndexOf(last);
 if (index >= 0) {
 if (index == 0)
 str = "";
 else
 str = str.substring(0, index);
...

String stripLeadingSlash(String str)
strip Leading Slash

if (!isEmpty(str) && str.startsWith("/")) {
 return str.substring(1);
} else {
 return str;

String stripNamespaceDeclarations(String xml)
strip Namespace Declarations

if (xml == null) {
 return null;
for (String declaration : declarations) {
 for (;;) {
 int i = xml.indexOf(declaration);
 if (i < 0) {
 break;
...

String stripTags(final String tagged)
strip Tags

final StringBuffer stripped = new StringBuffer();
boolean inTag = false;
for (int i = 0; i < tagged.length(); i++) {
 final char c = tagged.charAt(i);
 if (c == '<') {
 inTag = true;
 continue;
 if (c == '>') {
 inTag = false;
 continue;
 if (inTag) {
 continue;
 stripped.append(c);
return stripped.toString().trim();