CharSequences

Utility methods for dealing with java.lang.CharSequence.

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.github.marschall</groupId>
  <artifactId>charsequences</artifactId>
  <version>0.8.0</version>
</dependency>

When dealing with CharSequence instead of String many convince methods are not available. While you could simply call toString() on the CharSequence this would defeat the purpose of using a CharSequence. This is project contains implementations of some of them.

• indexOf(char)
• indexOf(char, int)
• startsWith(CharSequence)
• trim()
• Integer.parseInt(String), no longer needed in Java 9 but still faster
• Long.parseLong(String), no longer needed in Java 9 but still faster
• String.split(String), limited, only a single character is allowed, not a full regex
• UUID.fromString(String), no intermediary allocation
• an empty implementation of CharSequence

They avoid allocation where possible, check out the Javadoc for more information.