Method cleanStringFor

src/main/java/gate/Utils.java:170–172

Return the cleaned document text as a String corresponding to the annotation. (Delete leading and trailing whitespace; normalize internal whitespace to single spaces.) @param doc the document from which to extract the document text @param ann the annotation for which to return the text. @return a St

(Document doc, SimpleAnnotation ann)

   * @return a String representing the text content spanned by the annotation.
   */
  public static String cleanStringFor(Document doc, SimpleAnnotation ann) {
    return cleanString(stringFor(doc, ann));
  }
  
  /**
   * Returns the document text between the provided offsets.