ping, any thought on this?
2014/1/11 Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org>
> Hi,
>
> while looking through the open issues for lang, I came across LANG-823:
> StringUtils.split should handle empty strings the same as other content
> [1]. The request makes sense to me - the empty string should be handled
> like any other content.
>
> Then I looked into StringUtils to see how other methods handle the empty
> string and there are more examples of specific handling of the empty
> string. For example the following will return true:
>
> StringUtils.containsOnly("", "abc")
>
> and it gets even more weird, since
>
> StringUtils.containsNone("", "abc")
>
> also returns true! How can the same string a the same time _only_ contain
> "abc" and contain none of "abc"?
>
> I can not see any reason for this behavior. Why is the empty string
> different from any other string content? I'd like to change the behavior of
> the affected methods, but wanted to get some feedback first.
>
> Benedikt
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-823
>
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