Extract strings from Java classes

Question

I want to extract all the lines (texts written in "") in hundreds of Java classes in order to pass them to a translator for translation of a multilingual platform.

Does anyone have any ideas how I can do this? Any special freeware or method?

Answer 1

Eclipse has an External Rows function that creates a properties file for all rows in a class or classes. Other IDEs may have a similar function.

Answer 2

If you use eclipse as your IDE, it is as simple as selecting your project and from the context menu select "Source / Externalise Strings".

Answer 3

You can write a program to use regular expressions to capture any groups enclosed in strings.

Answer 4

If you have the source code, use the Eclipse function to externalize the lines mentioned by Dave.

If you only have class files, use the GNU string tool, which will find any string sequences inside the binary.

http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/binutils/strings.html