.TH STRINGS 2
.SH NAME
strings: quote, bytes \- string operations
.SH SYNOPSIS
.EX
package com.vitanuova.lib;

public class Strings {
    public static final String quote(String s);
    public static final String quote(String s, String ccl);
    public static final String quote(String args[], String ccl);
    public static final byte[] bytes(String s);
}
.EE
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Strings
provides a few functions to manipulate Java strings.
.TP
.BI quote( args,\ ccl )
Return a single string that contains the strings in
.I args
separated by spaces, with each string
quoted according to the conventions of the Plan 9 shell
.I rc
or Inferno's
.IR sh :
each string
is surrounded by single quotes if it contains space, tab, newline, a single quote, or one of the
characters in
.I ccl
(if that is not null).
Single quotes within a quoted string
are doubled.
.TP
.BI quote( s,\ ccl )
.br
.BI quote( s )
Return a single string in which
.I s
has been quoted as above.
.TP
.BI bytes( s )
Return an array of bytes containing the UTF-8 representation of the String
.IR s .
An empty array (ie, of length zero) is returned for a null string.
.SH SOURCE
.B /com/vitanuova/lib/Strings.java