Although splitPreserve isn't a great name, I can't thinkn of a better one. This does seem to be requested functionality for a utils class in addition to Tokenizer, so +1.
Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Caswell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Regarding the solution for http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22692, in addition to the fine work on the Tokenizer class, I'd like to address the initial complaint about how the split methods treat adjacent separators as one separator. I agree with Juergen that adjacent separators should not be treated this way, but should return an empty array element for adjacent separators. I propose to create an additional set of split methods that would preserve separators. To preserve backward compatibility, I propose it be called splitPreserve to distinguish from the existing split method. The functionality would be: For an input string of "a:b:::d" the return array would be array[0] = "a" array[1] = "b" array[2] = "" array[3] = "" array[4] = "d" Steven Caswell Sun Certified Java Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling that thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." .... John Stuart Mill. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
