/*
* LingPipe v. 3.9
* Copyright (C) 2003-2010 Alias-i
*
* This program is licensed under the Alias-i Royalty Free License
* Version 1 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Alias-i
* Royalty Free License Version 1 for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the Alias-i Royalty Free License
* Version 1 along with this program; if not, visit
* http://alias-i.com/lingpipe/licenses/lingpipe-license-1.txt or contact
* Alias-i, Inc. at 181 North 11th Street, Suite 401, Brooklyn, NY 11211,
* +1 (718) 290-9170.
*/
//package com.aliasi.util;
import java.io.DataInput;
import java.io.DataOutput;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
/**
* Static utility methods for processing strings, characters and
* string buffers.
*
* @author Bob Carpenter
* @version 4.0.1
* @since LingPipe1.0
* @see java.lang.Character
* @see java.lang.String
* @see java.lang.StringBuilder
*/
public class Strings {
/**
* Returns true if the first character in the
* specified array is an upper case letter and all subsequent
* characters are lower case letters.
*
* @param chars Array of characters to test.
* @return true if all of the characters in the
* specified array are lower case letters.
*/
public static boolean capitalized(char[] chars) {
if (chars.length == 0) return false;
if (!Character.isUpperCase(chars[0])) return false;
for (int i = 1; i < chars.length; ++i)
if (!Character.isLowerCase(chars[i]))
return false;
return true;
}
/**
* Returns a title-cased version of the specified word,
* which involves capitalizing the first character in
* the word if it is a letter.
*
* @param word The word to convert to title case.
* @return Title cased version of specified word.
*/
public static String titleCase(String word) {
if (word.length() < 1) return word;
if (!Character.isLetter(word.charAt(0))) return word;
return Character.toUpperCase(word.charAt(0))
+ word.substring(1);
}
}