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Trims the quotes
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/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2004 Actuate Corporation.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Actuate Corporation - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
/**
* Collection of string utilities.
*
*/
public class StringUtil
{
/**
* Trims the quotes.
* <p>
* For example,
* <ul>
* <li>("a.b") => a.b
* <li>("a.b) => "a.b
* <li>(a.b") => a.b"
* </ul>
*
* @param value
* the string may have quotes
* @return the string without quotes
*/
public static String trimQuotes( String value )
{
if ( value == null )
return value;
value = value.trim( );
if ( value.startsWith( "\"" ) && value.endsWith( "\"" ) )
return value.substring( 1, value.length( ) - 1 );
return value;
}
}
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