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+/**
+ *
+ */
+package cgeo.geocaching.utils;
+
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+
+/**
+ * Misc. utils
+ */
+public final class BaseUtils {
+
+    /**
+     * Searches for the pattern p in the data for the n-th group. If the pattern
+     * is not found defaultValue is returned
+     *
+     * @param data
+     * @param p
+     * @param group
+     * @param defaultValue
+     * @return
+     */
+    public static String getMatch(final String data, final Pattern p, final int group, final String defaultValue) {
+        final Matcher matcher = p.matcher(data);
+        if (matcher.find() && matcher.groupCount() >= group) {
+            // creating a new String via String constructor is necessary here!!
+            return new String(matcher.group(group).trim());
+            // Java copies the whole page String, when matching with regular expressions
+            // later this would block the garbage collector, as we only need tiny parts of the page
+            // see http://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/String.html#backing_array
+
+            // And BTW: You cannot even see that effect in the debugger, but must use a separate memory profiler!
+        }
+        return defaultValue;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Replace the characters \n, \r and \t with a space
+     * The result is a very long single "line".
+     * Don't change this behavior - the patterns for parsing rely on this matter of fact !
+     *
+     * @param buffer
+     *            The data
+     */
+    public static void replaceWhitespace(final StringBuffer buffer) {
+        final int length = buffer.length();
+        final char[] chars = new char[length];
+        buffer.getChars(0, length, chars, 0);
+        int resultSize = 0;
+        boolean lastWasWhitespace = false;
+        for (char c : chars) {
+            if (c == ' ' || c == '\n' || c == '\r' || c == '\t') {
+                if (!lastWasWhitespace) {
+                    chars[resultSize++] = ' ';
+                }
+                lastWasWhitespace = true;
+            } else {
+                chars[resultSize++] = c;
+                lastWasWhitespace = false;
+            }
+        }
+        buffer.setLength(0);
+        buffer.append(chars);
+    }
+
+}