2014/1/15 Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org>
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> 2014/1/13 Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org>
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>> Splitting with an empty string doesn't make any sense to me. Nothing
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>> match that -- even an empty string. It's a lack of a token.
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> Okay, and that's the reason why currently
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> StringUtils.split("", ".") = [ ]
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> StringUtils.split("x", ".") = ["x"]
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> I guess I understand the rationale behind this, but it feels a bit counter
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How do others feel? Should StringUtils.split("", *) return [ "" ]?
I've found another one that doesn't feel right:
StringUtils. isAlphaSpace(CharSequence cs) return true for the empty
string. That doesn't make sense to me, since the empty string is not a
whitespace character nor a letter.
I'm still not sure if we have consensus here about changing this stuff.
Benedikt
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>> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org
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>> > ping, any thought on this?
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>> > 2014/1/11 Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org>
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>> > > Hi,
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>> > > while looking through the open issues for lang, I came across
>> LANG-823:
>> > > StringUtils.split should handle empty strings the same as other
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>> > > [1]. The request makes sense to me - the empty string should be
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>> > > like any other content.
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>> > > Then I looked into StringUtils to see how other methods handle the
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>> > > string and there are more examples of specific handling of the empty
>> > > string. For example the following will return true:
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>> > > StringUtils.containsOnly("", "abc")
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>> > > and it gets even more weird, since
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>> > > StringUtils.containsNone("", "abc")
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>> > > also returns true! How can the same string a the same time _only_
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>> > > "abc" and contain none of "abc"?
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>> > > 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
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>> > > the affected methods, but wanted to get some feedback first.
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>> > > Benedikt
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>> > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-823
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>> Cheers,
>> Paul
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