Java how can I add an accented "e" to a string?
- by behrk2
Hello,
With the help of tucuxi from the existing post Java remove HTML from String without regular expressions I have built a method that will parse out any basic HTML tags from a string. Sometimes, however, the original string contains html hexadecimal characters like é (which is an accented e). I have started to add functionality which will translate these escaped characters into real characters.
You're probably asking: Why not use regular expressions? Or a third party library? Unfortunately I cannot, as I am developing on a BlackBerry platform which does not support regular expressions and I have never been able to successfully add a third party library to my project.
So, I have gotten to the point where any é is replaced with "e". My question now is, how do I add an actual 'accented e' to a string?
Here is my code:
public static String removeHTML(String synopsis) {
char[] cs = synopsis.toCharArray();
String sb = new String();
boolean tag = false;
for (int i = 0; i < cs.length; i++) {
switch (cs[i]) {
case '<':
if (!tag) {
tag = true;
break;
}
case '>':
if (tag) {
tag = false;
break;
}
case '&':
char[] copyTo = new char[7];
System.arraycopy(cs, i, copyTo, 0, 7);
String result = new String(copyTo);
if (result.equals("é")) {
sb += "e";
}
i += 7;
break;
default:
if (!tag)
sb += cs[i];
}
}
return sb.toString();
}
Thanks!
