From 1ebf25ab86703501e0967f7b1b88ce1e470865c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steve Loughran <stevel@apache.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:14:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added a private constructor, to stop this being
 instantiated/subclassed.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@278183 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/StringUtils.java | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/StringUtils.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/StringUtils.java
index 853bd139d..7be80ddf1 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/StringUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/StringUtils.java
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ import java.util.Vector;
  */
 public final class StringUtils {
 
+    /**
+     * constructor to stop anyone instantiating the class
+     */
+    private StringUtils() {
+    }
+
     /** the line separator for this OS */
     public static final String LINE_SEP = System.getProperty("line.separator");