/*license*\ XBN-Java: Copyright (C) 2014, Jeff Epstein (aliteralmind __DASH__ github __AT__ yahoo __DOT__ com) This software is dual-licensed under the: - Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3.0 or, at your option, any later version; - Apache Software License (ASL) version 2.0. Either license may be applied at your discretion. More information may be found at - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-licensing. The text of both licenses is available in the root directory of this project, under the names "LICENSE_lgpl-3.0.txt" and "LICENSE_asl-2.0.txt". The latest copies may be downloaded at: - LGPL 3.0: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt - ASL 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt \*license*/ package com.github.xbn.examples.regexutil.non_xbn; import java.util.regex.Pattern; import java.util.regex.Matcher; /** <p>Duplicate lines where the duplicate has punctuation removed, and spaces replaced with dashes.</p> <p>{@code java com.github.xbn.examples.regexutil.non_xbn.DupLinesChangeSpaceToDashInDup}</p> * @since 0.1.0 * @author Copyright (C) 2014, Jeff Epstein ({@code aliteralmind __DASH__ github __AT__ yahoo __DOT__ com}), dual-licensed under the LGPL (version 3.0 or later) or the ASL (version 2.0). See source code for details. <a href="http://xbnjava.aliteralmind.com">{@code http://xbnjava.aliteralmind.com}</a>, <a href="https://github.com/aliteralmind/xbnjava">{@code https://github.com/aliteralmind/xbnjava}</a> **/ public class DupLinesChangeSpaceToDashInDup { public static final void main(String[] ignored) { //input String LINE_SEP = System.getProperty("line.separator", "\r\n"); StringBuilder inputBldr = new StringBuilder(). append("Hi. My name is Ni__ck.").append(LINE_SEP). append("This is the second line!").append(LINE_SEP); String[] textInputArr = inputBldr.toString().split(LINE_SEP); //config //"": Dummy search string, to reuse matcher Matcher mtchrNonWordChar = Pattern.compile("(\\W|_)").matcher(""); //go StringBuffer rplcmntBfr = new StringBuffer(); for(String lineText : textInputArr) { rplcmntBfr.append(lineText).append("|"); String[] wordArr = lineText.split(" "); for(int i = 0; i < wordArr.length; i++) { String s = wordArr[i]; rplcmntBfr.append(mtchrNonWordChar.reset(s).replaceAll("")); if(i < wordArr.length - 1) { rplcmntBfr.append("-"); } } rplcmntBfr.append(LINE_SEP); } System.out.println(rplcmntBfr); } }