Need help on logic

[nn12]

I have a small piece of code which takes a input string, does the cleanup part(removes special characters like '’\\. and replaces any other characters with a space) & then generates a new string.

public class Example
{
	public static void main(String... args)
	{
		charFilter("I.T rocks. It's time to get a job.Come on");

	}

	public static String charFilter(String inText) { 

		String outText="";

		inText = inText.replaceAll("['’\\.]", "");
		outText = inText.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z0-9- ]", " ");
		System.out.println(outText);
		return outText;
	}

}

The output of the above code is "IT rocks Its time to get a jobCome on". But I need to get an output as "IT rocks Its time to get a job Come on"(job & come should appear as separate words, but I.T should appear as IT) because we can expect the user inputting the data to forget adding a space after the full stop.

Can someone suggest me what approach I need to follow.

[Addez]

I.T rocks. It's time to get a job.Come on
Only diffrence, I think, is job.Come's dot got a capital letter on the right side of it. and a non capital letter on its left side.
If so then it should do a space. Otherwise it may remove the dot only.

[nn12]

Addez your suggestion sounds interesting. Do you happen to know if it can done using regular expression?

[juhiswt]

Just give one more space in outtext string bu which it is being replaced.

[nn12]

@juhiswt: the problem with that is then I.T and U.S would appear as I T and U S. I need to keep the abbreviated words together. If we can achieve this then the problem is solved

[Addez]

Sorry for late reply. Thought this question was answerd
so I didnt check it again.

Well heres how I fixed it,
Didnt use your fancy way, instead used a forloop:

public class Example
{
	public static void main(String... args)
	{
		charFilter("I.T rocks. It's time to get a job.Come on");

	}

	public static String charFilter(String inText) { 

		String outText="";
		for(int i = 0;i < inText.length(); i++){
			if (inText.charAt(i) == '.' && i > 0){
				if (!Character.isUpperCase(inText.charAt(i-1)) && Character.isUpperCase(inText.charAt(i+1))){
					inText = inText.substring(0,i) + " " + inText.substring(i+1);
				}
			}
			
		}
		inText = inText.replaceAll("['’\\.]", "");
		outText = inText.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z0-9- ]", " ");
		
		System.out.println(outText);
		return outText;
	}

}

[nn12]

thank you!