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Pick "Enhancement" in the Severity drop down, fill in the rest, create a attachment as a CVS patch for your code: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/patches.html Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: Inger, Matthew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:11 > To: 'Jakarta Commons Developers List' > Subject: RE: suggestion for new StringUtils.method > > Being new to this list, how should i go about submitting > this method? Do i just post the code here? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Arun Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 1:32 PM > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: RE: suggestion for new StringUtils.method > > > Ooops.... > > Here's the bug entry: > > http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22692 > > -AMT > > -----Original Message----- > From: Arun Thomas > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:31 AM > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: RE: suggestion for new StringUtils.method > > > Take a look at the following bug entry currently in Bugzilla.... Your idea > seems to be an expansion of the desired functionality described by the > "bug". I would certainly add the additional behaviour you propose (escape > characters to prevent tokenization) to this bug. > > It would be interesting, I think, if this functionality was provided as a > StringTokenizer replacement (subclass?) in line with Stephen's comment on > the bug. (This could be as simple as a delegation to a StringUtils > method, > or a StringUtils convenience method could delegate to the StringTokenizer > replacement.) > > Cheers, > -AMT > > -----Original Message----- > From: Inger, Matthew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:03 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: suggestion for new StringUtils.method > > > The following method might be extremely useful for people: > > String [] undelimit(String input, char separatorChar, char quoteChar); > > This method splits a string according to a Delimiter seperated format > (CSV) for example. It takes into account quoting, as well as allowing for > empty tokens. So a string like the following: > > a, , b, "c,d,e", "f""g""h", > > would return the following tokens: > > 1- a > 2- <blank> > 3- b > 4- c,d,e > 5- f"g"h > 6- <blank> > > It happens to strip leading whitespace, but i could always make that > optional. > > It's an extremely efficient algorithm which runs through the underlying > character array one character at a time to build the tokens. > > Any thoughts? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
