Hyphenator

Hyphenator.java

package br.com.tealdi.testing;

import java.text.Normalizer;

public class Hyphenator {

    public String hyphenizeIt(String text) {
        return trimmingHyphens(
                removeNonCharactersButHyphen(
                        convertSpacesIntoHyphens(
                                removeAccents(
                                        text.toLowerCase()))));
    }

    private static String trimmingHyphens(String text) {
        return text.replaceAll("^\\W|\\W$", "");
    }

    private static String removeAccents(String text) {
        return Normalizer
                .normalize(text, Normalizer.Form.NFD)
                .replaceAll("\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+", "");
    }

    private static String removeNonCharactersButHyphen(String text) {
        return text.replaceAll("[^\\w|-]", "");
    }

    private static String convertSpacesIntoHyphens(String text) {
        return text
                .trim()
                .replaceAll("[\\s]+", "-");
    }
}