Method cleanString

src/main/java/gate/Utils.java:266–272

Return a cleaned version of the input String. (Delete leading and trailing whitespace; normalize internal whitespace to single spaces; return an empty String if the input contains nothing but whitespace, but null if the input is null.) @return a cleaned version of the input String.

(String input)

   * @return a cleaned version of the input String.
   */
  public static String cleanString(String input) {
    if (input == null) {
      return null;
    }
    // implied else
    return input.replaceAll("\\s+", " ").trim();
  }
  
  /**
   * Get the start offset of an annotation.