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15: package com.metaboss.util;
16:
17: import java.text.BreakIterator;
18:
19: /** Set of useful utilites to do with objects */
20: public class TextUtils {
21: /** This method extracts first sentence from the given text and returns it.
22: * @see java.text.BreakIterator description on sentence extraction algorithm */
23: public static String getFirstSentence(String pOriginalText) {
24: if (pOriginalText != null) {
25: // Extract first sentence.
26: BreakIterator lSentenceIterator = BreakIterator
27: .getSentenceInstance();
28: lSentenceIterator.setText(pOriginalText);
29: int start = lSentenceIterator.first();
30: int end = lSentenceIterator.next();
31: if (end != BreakIterator.DONE)
32: return pOriginalText.substring(start, end);
33: }
34: return pOriginalText;
35: }
36: }
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