Author: bayard Date: Wed Aug 25 19:59:41 2010 New Revision: 989329 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=989329&view=rev Log: Fixing javadoc per LANG-643 to indicate an empty String is returned for negative length and not a thrown exception
Modified: commons/proper/lang/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringUtils.java Modified: commons/proper/lang/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringUtils.java URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/lang/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringUtils.java?rev=989329&r1=989328&r2=989329&view=diff ============================================================================== --- commons/proper/lang/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringUtils.java (original) +++ commons/proper/lang/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringUtils.java Wed Aug 25 19:59:41 2010 @@ -2016,7 +2016,7 @@ public class StringUtils { * * <p>If <code>len</code> characters are not available, or the * String is <code>null</code>, the String will be returned without - * an exception. An exception is thrown if len is negative.</p> + * an exception. An empty String is returned if len is negative.</p> * * <pre> * StringUtils.left(null, *) = null @@ -2049,7 +2049,7 @@ public class StringUtils { * * <p>If <code>len</code> characters are not available, or the String * is <code>null</code>, the String will be returned without an - * an exception. An exception is thrown if len is negative.</p> + * an exception. An empty String is returned if len is negative.</p> * * <pre> * StringUtils.right(null, *) = null @@ -2083,7 +2083,7 @@ public class StringUtils { * <p>If <code>len</code> characters are not available, the remainder * of the String will be returned without an exception. If the * String is <code>null</code>, <code>null</code> will be returned. - * An exception is thrown if len is negative.</p> + * An empty String is returned if len is negative.</p> * * <pre> * StringUtils.mid(null, *, *) = null