/*
* 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 specified character is a punctuation character.
* Punctuation includes comma, period, exclamation point, question
* mark, colon and semicolon. Note that quotes and apostrophes
* are not considered punctuation by this method.
*
* @param c Character to test.
* @return true if specified character is a
* whitespace.
* @see java.lang.Character
*/
public static boolean isPunctuation(char c) {
return c == ','
|| c == '.'
|| c == '!'
|| c == '?'
|| c == ':'
|| c == ';'
;
}
}