Gary didn't like splitPreserve. I originally suggested splitPreserve so that's fine by me. I could also go with splitAll.
And I agree, I don't like the boolean flags either. 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. > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 6:28 PM > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [lang] StringUtils.split ignores empty items > (Bugzilla bug# 22692) > > > StringUtils currently has no boolean flags in method args, > and I want to keep it that way. > > splitAll? > 'Split the string keeping All the tokens' > > splitPreserve? > 'Split the string Preserving all the tokens' > > Stephen > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steven Caswell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I agree the name is not great. I'm not sure the other > suggestions convey the method behavior either. I typically > don't like adding a boolean to change the behavior, but > rather have a different method of similar name, but I can't > think of a great name either. > > A few more suggestions: > - splitIncludeEmptyTokens > - splitKeepEmptyTokens > - splitWithEmptyTokens > > I think I like splitIncludeEmptyTokens the best. But to not > keep beating this one to death, if one of these is not > suitable, let's just go with adding a boolean argument. > > 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. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gary Gregory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 12:45 PM > > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > > Subject: RE: [lang] StringUtils.split ignores empty items (Bugzilla > > bug# 22692) > > > > > > Indeed not a great name. "splitPreserve" does not tell you > what it is > > preserving. How about: > > > > - Instead of splitPreserve, split with boolean argument. > > - Use another word: "Keep" or "Include" or "With", with or without > > "what" is preserved: > > - splitKeep > > - splitKeepSeparator > > - splitWith > > - splitWithSeparator > > - splitInclude > > - splitIncludeSeparator > > > > ? > > > > Gary > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 15:43 > > > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > > > Subject: Re: [lang] StringUtils.split ignores empty items > (Bugzilla > > bug# > > > 22692) > > > > > > 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. 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