diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils.java b/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils.java
index e8977678d..da721c2e4 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils.java
@@ -54,15 +54,6 @@ package org.apache.commons.lang;
* .
*/
-import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
-import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
-import java.io.InputStreamReader;
-import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
-import java.io.OutputStream;
-import java.io.PrintWriter;
-import java.io.StringWriter;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.util.Iterator;
@@ -82,7 +73,7 @@ import java.util.Iterator;
* @author Stephen Colebourne
* @author