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Satyanarayana J commented on LANG-1173:
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General use case could be,
two different interfaces maintaining two type for a entity attribute (ex:
attribute - vehicle number : string in one system and int in another system.
change might not be possible due to existing data constraints)
scenario - one interface A(vehicle number : string) sends vehicle number as
"0001" and interface B(vehicle number : int) do process it(can use
Byte,Integer,or Long parsing to convert) and when they respond to interface A
they might send the 'int'.
Here is the data mismatch while compare both values
interface A (0001) <--- interface B (1)
This is a use case I could come up with, not sure If it's of much occurrence
across Java applications.
Regarding regex implementations of the method, I couldn't find any straight
forward implementation for the above scenario in any available APIs.
As commons lang has much wider set of StringUtils, I thought it could be a
useful addition.
> Addition of stripStartToChar
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>
> Key: LANG-1173
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1173
> Project: Commons Lang
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: lang.*
> Reporter: Satyanarayana J
> Priority: Minor
>
> Looking for any possibility to add additional methods into StringUtils.
> We already use stripStart , which strips set of leading whitespaces to empty.
> As an addition, can we have below method?
> * stripStartToChar(String str, String/Character char) - leading whitespaces
> to a specific character/string
> or
> * stripStartAndReplace(String str, String stripChars, String/Character char)
> - leading characters to a specific character/string
> These methods could be useful to strip leading whitespaces/characters with a
> replacement string/characters
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