Where can I access StringUtils.replaceEach()?

Question

The answer to Java escape HTML shows StringUtils.replaceEach() which runs similar to multiple StringUtils.replace()s, but accepting arrays of Strings instead of having to do each replace individually.

For example:

str = StringUtils.replace(str, "&", "&");
str = StringUtils.replace(str, "\"", """);
str = StringUtils.replace(str, "<", "&lt;");
str = StringUtils.replace(str, ">", "&gt;");

...becomes...

str = StringUtils.replaceEach(str,
    new String[]{"&", "\"", "<", ">"},
    new String[]{"&amp;", "&quot;", "&lt;", "&gt;"})

Much cleaner.

Where can I access StringUtils.replace()?

I have tried importing the following, to no avail:

1. org.springframework.util.StringUtils
2. org.apache.soap.util.StringUtils
3. org.apache.axis.utils.StringUtils
4. com.ibm.wsdl.util.StringUtils

They each have .replace(), of course.

Answer 1

It believe you are looking for: org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils

You can find more about it here:

http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-3.1/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringUtils.html

And download the .jar here:

http://commons.apache.org/lang/