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+package org.apache.lucene.util;
+
+import java.util.Comparator;
+import java.util.StringTokenizer;
+
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+
+/**
+ * Methods for manipulating strings.
+ *
+ * @lucene.internal
+ */
+public abstract class StringHelper {
+ /**
+ * Expert:
+ * The StringInterner implementation used by Lucene.
+ * This shouldn't be changed to an incompatible implementation after other Lucene APIs have been used.
+ */
+ public static StringInterner interner = new SimpleStringInterner(1024,8);
+
+ /** Return the same string object for all equal strings */
+ public static String intern(String s) {
+ return interner.intern(s);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Compares two byte[] arrays, element by element, and returns the
+ * number of elements common to both arrays.
+ *
+ * @param bytes1 The first byte[] to compare
+ * @param bytes2 The second byte[] to compare
+ * @return The number of common elements.
+ */
+ public static final int bytesDifference(byte[] bytes1, int len1, byte[] bytes2, int len2) {
+ int len = len1 < len2 ? len1 : len2;
+ for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)
+ if (bytes1[i] != bytes2[i])
+ return i;
+ return len;
+ }
+
+ private StringHelper() {
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * @return a Comparator over versioned strings such as X.YY.Z
+ * @lucene.internal
+ */
+ public static Comparator<String> getVersionComparator() {
+ return versionComparator;
+ }
+
+ private static Comparator<String> versionComparator = new Comparator<String>() {
+ public int compare(String a, String b) {
+ StringTokenizer aTokens = new StringTokenizer(a, ".");
+ StringTokenizer bTokens = new StringTokenizer(b, ".");
+
+ while (aTokens.hasMoreTokens()) {
+ int aToken = Integer.parseInt(aTokens.nextToken());
+ if (bTokens.hasMoreTokens()) {
+ int bToken = Integer.parseInt(bTokens.nextToken());
+ if (aToken != bToken) {
+ return aToken < bToken ? -1 : 1;
+ }
+ } else {
+ // a has some extra trailing tokens. if these are all zeroes, thats ok.
+ if (aToken != 0) {
+ return 1;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ // b has some extra trailing tokens. if these are all zeroes, thats ok.
+ while (bTokens.hasMoreTokens()) {
+ if (Integer.parseInt(bTokens.nextToken()) != 0)
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+ }
+ };
+}