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Converting a string to a boolean
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/*
* Copyright (c) 2001, 2002 The XDoclet team
* All rights reserved.
*/
/**
* @author Ara Abrahamian (ara_e@email.com)
* @created Oct 15, 2001
* @version $Revision: 1.5 $
*/
public final class TypeConversionUtil
{
/**
* A utility method for converting a string to a boolean. "yes", "no", "true", "false", "1", "0", "on" and "off" are
* valid values for a boolean string (ignoring case). If not one of then then the value of defaultValue parameter is
* returned.
*
* @param defaultValue Description of Parameter
* @param in The String to convert
* @return true or false
*/
public static boolean stringToBoolean(String in, boolean defaultValue)
{
if (in == null || in.trim().length() == 0) {
return defaultValue;
}
else {
if (in.equalsIgnoreCase("on")) {
return true;
}
if (in.equalsIgnoreCase("off")) {
return false;
}
switch (in.charAt(0)) {
case '1':
case 't':
case 'T':
case 'y':
case 'Y':
return true;
case '0':
case 'f':
case 'F':
case 'n':
case 'N':
return false;
default:
return defaultValue;
}
}
}
}
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