String and Number HowTo

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• String
  chevron_rightConvert from type X to type Y
  chevron_rightStrip certain characters from String
  chevron_rightReplace/remove character in a String
  chevron_rightReplace every occurences of a string within a string
  chevron_right"Tokenize" a string
  chevron_rightSplit a string using String.split()
  chevron_rightOptimize String operations
  chevron_rightRemove spaces from a String
  chevron_rightTest if a String starts with a digit or uppercase letter
  chevron_rightGet InputStream from a String
  chevron_rightEasy String padding
  chevron_rightReplace \r\n with the <br> tag
  chevron_rightRemove accent from letters (ex .é to e)
  chevron_rightApply a mask to a string
  chevron_rightFormat a String (JDK1.5)
  chevron_rightReplace a "\" by "\\"
  chevron_rightSubstitute tokens in a String
  chevron_rightCompare accentuated letters
  chevron_rightCreate a String with a fixed length
  chevron_rightUnquote a String
  chevron_rightEscape HTML special characters from a String
  chevron_rightUnescape HTML special characters from a String
  chevron_rightDetect non-ASCII character in a String
  chevron_rightRemove HTML tags from a file to extract only the TEXT
  chevron_rightExtract links from an HTML page
  chevron_rightConvert a byte array to a Hex string
  chevron_rightApply proper uppercase and lowercase on a String
  chevron_rightEncode/Decode to/from Base64
  chevron_rightJustify string with wordwrap
  chevron_rightShorten a long path
  chevron_rightEllipse a long string
  chevron_rightDisplay an ASCII banner
  chevron_rightCapitalize first and last name
  chevron_rightRemove non numeric character in a String
  
• Number
  chevron_rightConvert from type X to type Y
  chevron_rightType conversion (JDK1.5)
  chevron_rightRound a double
  chevron_rightDisplay numbers with commas
  chevron_rightDisplay numbers in scientific notation
  chevron_rightDisplay numbers with leading zeroes
  chevron_rightGet a random number
  chevron_rightConvert an UNSIGNED byte to a JAVA integer
  chevron_rightDeal with the big-endian and little-endian order
  chevron_rightPass an integer by reference
  chevron_rightPass floats as string literals to a method
  chevron_rightGet random numbers
  chevron_rightConvert number to words
  chevron_rightArithmetic with double
  chevron_rightDetect even/odd number
  chevron_rightConvert bytes to megabytes
  chevron_rightValidate a number
  chevron_rightGet a unique identifier
  chevron_rightValidate/Convert a number using the current Locale()
  chevron_rightTransform a fraction to a Double
  chevron_rightGet short ordinal representation of a number
  chevron_rightRead / Write COBOL signed value
  

String and Number HowTo