/*
* 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 the length of the longest shared prefix of the two
* input strings.
*
* @param a First string.
* @param b Second string.
* @return The length of the longest shared prefix of the two
* strings.
*/
public static int sharedPrefixLength(String a, String b) {
int end = java.lang.Math.min(a.length(),b.length());
for (int i = 0; i < end; ++i)
if (a.charAt(i) != b.charAt(i))
return i;
return end;
}
}