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Generic cast
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/*
* Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Colin Bell
* colbell@users.sourceforge.net
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
* version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
*/
import java.io.*;
import java.text.NumberFormat;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
/**
* General purpose utilities functions.
*
* @author <A HREF="mailto:colbell@users.sourceforge.net">Colin Bell</A>
*/
public class Utilities
{
/**
* This is taken from Eammon McManus' blog:
* http://weblogs.java.net/blog/emcmanus/archive/2007/03/getting_rid_of.html This prevents you from having
* to place SuppressWarnings throughout your code.
*
* @param <T>
* the return type to cast the object to
* @param x
* the object to cast.
* @return a type-casted version of the specified object.
*/
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public static <T> T cast(Object x) {
return (T) x;
}
}
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