What does the Javadoc say?
On 13 January 2014 17:00, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote:
> ping, any thought on this?
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> 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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