2014/1/13 Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org>
> Splitting with an empty string doesn't make any sense to me. Nothing should
> match that -- even an empty string. It's a lack of a token.
>
Okay, and that's the reason why currently
StringUtils.split("", ".") = [ ]
but
StringUtils.split("x", ".") = ["x"]
I guess I understand the rationale behind this, but it feels a bit counter
intuitive.
>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org
> >wrote:
>
> > 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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>
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> Cheers,
> Paul
>
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