Regular Expressions in Java

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JavaBeautifier 1.0: JBuilder usage

A Screenshot
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Installing the JavaBeautifier in JBuilder 3.5
Simply place the binary, jbeaut.jar, in your lib/ext directory. For example, on your NT machine it might be here: C:\JBuilder35\lib\ext\jbeaut.jar.

Installing the JavaBeautifier in JBuilder 3.0
After downloading jbeaut.jar, place it in the path of JBuilder at startup. On a Windows NT machine you can do this by editing jbuilder.bat (which might be in D:\JBuilder30\bin\jbuilder.bat), and adding jbeaut.jar to the tempcp path so that it looks like this:

  set tempcp=\libs\jbeaut.jar

After this, you will find that the JavaBeautifier is availble under the "Wizards" menu item.

What does it do? How do I use it?
The JavaBeautifier transforms the code that you see in the display window. It takes code that that looks like this:

if(a)
if(b)
c;
else(d)
e;
if(a) {
while(b) {
c; /*
     Here is a table:
        +------+------+
        | col1 | col2 |
        +------+------+
        | vol1 | vol2 |
        +------+------+
     */
}
}

and transforms it to look like this:

if(a)
    if(b)
        c;
    else(d)
        e;
if(a) {
    while(b) {
        c; /*
             Here is a table:
                +------+------+
                | col1 | col2 |
                +------+------+
                | vol1 | vol2 |
                +------+------+
             */
    }
}

The text is indented "Tab Size" spaces (the number is obtained from the input text area on the dialog) after each "{" and just as many fewer spaces after each "}". Note that while the multi-line comment in the above pseudo code is indented, it's overall structure is returned. The + is still aligned under the second "e" in "Here".

Although this is not apparent in the illustration, note that all tabs are removed from the source file by the beautification procedure and replaced by spaces.

By default, the JavaBeautifier does not add any newlines to your code. If this is not the behavior you desire, you can ask the JavaBeautifier to insert carriage returns after curly braces.

If the "End of Line" option is checked in the dialog, then code of the following form:

if(a) { b; } else { c; }

would be transformed into the following:

if(a) {
  b;
} else {
  c;
}

If the "Next line" option is checked in the dialg, then code of the following form:

if(a) { b; } else { c; }

would be transformed into the following:

if(a)
{
  b;
}
else
{
  c;
}