StringUtils.java

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package edu.toronto.cs.xml2rdf.string;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.text.Normalizer;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class StringUtils {

    public static String deAccent(String str) {
        String nfdNormalizedString = Normalizer.normalize(str, Normalizer.Form.NFD);
        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+");
        return pattern.matcher(nfdNormalizedString).replaceAll("");
    }

    public static String getContent(InputStream is) throws IOException {
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
        String ret = "";
        String line;
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            ret += line + "\n";
        }
        return ret;
    }

}