+#include <stdarg.h> //only included in implementation file
+#include <stdio.h> //only included in implementation file
+
+namespace gdcm
+{
+
+/**
+ * \ingroup Globals
+ * \brief Provide a better 'c++' approach for sprintf
+ * For example c code is:
+ * sprintf(trash, "%04x|%04x", group , element);
+ *
+ * c++ is
+ * std::ostringstream buf;
+ * buf << std::right << std::setw(4) << std::setfill('0') << std::hex
+ * << group << "|" << std::right << std::setw(4) << std::setfill('0')
+ * << std::hex << element;
+ * buf.str();
+ */
+
+std::string Util::Format(const char* format, ...)
+{
+ char buffer[2048];
+ va_list args;
+ va_start(args, format);
+ vsprintf(buffer, format, args); //might be a security flaw
+ return buffer;
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * \ingroup Globals
+ * \brief Because not available in C++ (?)
+ */
+void Util::Tokenize (const std::string& str,
+ std::vector<std::string>& tokens,
+ const std::string& delimiters)
+{
+ std::string::size_type lastPos = str.find_first_not_of(delimiters,0);
+ std::string::size_type pos = str.find_first_of (delimiters,lastPos);
+ while (std::string::npos != pos || std::string::npos != lastPos)
+ {
+ tokens.push_back(str.substr(lastPos, pos - lastPos));
+ lastPos = str.find_first_not_of(delimiters, pos);
+ pos = str.find_first_of (delimiters, lastPos);
+ }
+}
+
+/**
+ * \ingroup Globals
+ * \brief Because not available in C++ (?)
+ * Counts the number of occurences of a substring within a string
+ */
+
+int Util::CountSubstring (const std::string& str,
+ const std::string& subStr)
+{
+ int count = 0; // counts how many times it appears
+ unsigned int x = 0; // The index position in the string
+
+ do
+ {
+ x = str.find(subStr,x); // Find the substring
+ if (x != std::string::npos) // If present
+ {
+ count++; // increase the count
+ x += subStr.length(); // Skip this word
+ }
+ }
+ while (x != std::string::npos); // Carry on until not present
+
+ return count;
+}
+
+/**
+ * \ingroup Globals
+ * \brief Weed out a string from the non-printable characters (in order
+ * to avoid corrupting the terminal of invocation when printing)
+ * @param s string to remove non printable characters from
+ */
+std::string Util::CreateCleanString(std::string const & s)
+{
+ std::string str = s;
+
+ for(unsigned int i=0;i<str.size();i++)
+ {
+ if(!isprint(str[i]))
+ {
+ str[i]='.';
+ }
+ }
+
+ if(str.size()>0)
+ {
+ if(!isprint(s[str.size()-1]))
+ {
+ if(s[str.size()-1]==0)
+ {
+ str[str.size()-1]=' ';
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ return str;