ptolemy.gui
Class GUIStringUtilities

java.lang.Object
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  +--ptolemy.gui.GUIStringUtilities

public class GUIStringUtilities

extends java.lang.Object

A collection of utilities for manipulating strings. In theory, these methods should be in ptolemy.kernel.util.StringUtilities, but ptolemy.gui gets shipped without StringUtilities, so we include them here.

Since:

Ptolemy II 2.0

Version:

$Id: GUIStringUtilities.java,v 1.6 2002/05/07 22:51:25 cxh Exp $

Author:

Christopher Hylands

Method Summary

static java.lang.String	abbreviate(java.lang.String longName) Abbreviate a string.
static java.lang.String	split(java.lang.String longName) If the string is longer than 80 characters, split it up by displaying adding newlines every 80 characters.
static java.lang.String[]	tokenizeForExec(java.lang.String inputString) Tokenize a String to an array of Strings for use with Runtime.exec(String []).

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

abbreviate

public static java.lang.String abbreviate(java.lang.String longName)

Abbreviate a string. If the string is longer than 80 characters, truncate it by displaying the first 37 chars, then ". . .", then the last 38 characters. If the longName argument is null, then the string "" is returned.

Returns:

The name.

See Also:

split(String longName)

split

public static java.lang.String split(java.lang.String longName)

If the string is longer than 80 characters, split it up by displaying adding newlines every 80 characters. If the longName argument is null, then the string "" is returned.

Parameters:

longName - The string to optionally split up

Returns:

Either the original string, or the string with newlines inserted

See Also:

abbreviate(java.lang.String)

tokenizeForExec

public static java.lang.String[] tokenizeForExec(java.lang.String inputString)
                                          throws java.io.IOException

Tokenize a String to an array of Strings for use with Runtime.exec(String []).

Lines that begin with an octothorpe '#' are ignored. Substrings that start and end with a double quote are considered to be a single token and are returned as a single array element.

Parameters:

inputString - The String to tokenize

Returns:

An array of substrings.

Throws:

java.io.IOException - Thrown if StreamTokenizer.nextToken() throws it.