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 * Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Chris Smith, Shane Mc Cormack, Gregory Holmes
 *
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package com.dmdirc.util;

import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Utilities for dealing with streams.
 *
 * @since 0.6.3m2
 * @author chris
 */
public abstract class StreamUtil {

    /**
     * Closes the stream if it is non-null, and ignores any IOExceptions
     * raised by doing so.
     *
     * @param stream The stream to be closed
     */
    public static void close(final Closeable stream) {
        if (stream != null) {
            try {
                stream.close();
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                // Do nothing. We don't care.
            }
        }
    }

}