package org.apache.lucene.util;
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/**
* Methods for manipulating strings.
*/
public abstract class StringHelper {
/**
* Expert:
* The StringInterner implementation used by Lucene.
* This shouldn't be changed to an incompatible implementation after other Lucene APIs have been used.
*/
public static StringInterner interner = new SimpleStringInterner(1024,8);
/** Return the same string object for all equal strings */
public static String intern(String s) {
return interner.intern(s);
}
/**
* Compares two byte[] arrays, element by element, and returns the
* number of elements common to both arrays.
*
* @param bytes1 The first byte[] to compare
* @param bytes2 The second byte[] to compare
* @return The number of common elements.
*/
public static final int bytesDifference(byte[] bytes1, int len1, byte[] bytes2, int len2) {
int len = len1 < len2 ? len1 : len2;
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)
if (bytes1[i] != bytes2[i])
return i;
return len;
}
/**
* Compares two strings, character by character, and returns the
* first position where the two strings differ from one another.
*
* @param s1 The first string to compare
* @param s2 The second string to compare
* @return The first position where the two strings differ.
*/
public static final int stringDifference(String s1, String s2) {
int len1 = s1.length();
int len2 = s2.length();
int len = len1 < len2 ? len1 : len2;
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
if (s1.charAt(i) != s2.charAt(i)) {
return i;
}
}
return len;
}
private StringHelper() {
}
}