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The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents.

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package org.apache.pdfbox.util;

import java.util.Map;


/**
 * This class with handle some simple Map operations.
 *
 * @author Ben Litchfield
 * @version $Revision: 1.2 $
 */
public class MapUtil
{
    private MapUtil()
    {
        //utility class
    }

    /**
     * Generate a unique key for the map based on a prefix.
     *
     * @param map The map to look for existing keys.
     * @param prefix The prefix to use when generating the key.
     * @return The new unique key that does not currently exist in the map.
     */
    public static final String getNextUniqueKey( Map map, String prefix )
    {
        int counter = 0;
        while( map != null && map.get( prefix+counter ) != null )
        {
            counter++;
        }
        return prefix+counter;
    }
}