RE: [lang] unexpected StringUtils.split behavior (was RE: suggest ion for new StringUtils.method)

["Inger, Matthew" <in...@Synygy.com>]

There's a new tokenizer attached to defect 22692 which does
CSV style tokenizing.  Test class is attached as well.  Just
waiting on someone to commit it.


-----Original Message-----
From: Al Chou [mailto:hotfusionman@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 2:02 PM
To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
Subject: RE: [lang] unexpected StringUtils.split behavior (was RE:
suggestion for new StringUtils.method)


I am only skimming [lang] posts for stuff pretty closely related to my
issue,
so I hadn't given much thought to the new StringTokenizer replacement --
perhaps I felt it was a little too new for me to be adding even more new
stuff.
 Whoever wants to is welcome to incorporate this new method there, if it
gets
committed to StringUtils at all in the first place.

Al


--- Arun Thomas <ar...@paybytouch.com> wrote:
> I also know that this is more than you intended, but any thought of
> incorporating the split on string into the new StringTokenizer replacement
as
> well?  I think that would be pretty useful.  (It's behaviour in two
places,
> but implementation could certainly delegate....)
> 
> -AMT
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Chou [mailto:hotfusionman@yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 10:22 PM
> To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
> Subject: [lang] unexpected StringUtils.split behavior (was RE: suggestion
for
> new StringUtils.method)
> 
> I guess my previous post got lost in the noise, so I'm reposting.  I have
two
> new StringUtils.split methods that can split a string at occurrences of a
> substring rather than splitting at the individual characters in the
specified
> delimiter string.
> 
> While testing, I discovered that my expectations for the behavior of the
> split( *, ..., int max ) methods didn't match their actual behavior.  I
> expected to get a maximum of "max" substrings, all of which were delimited
in
> the parent string by the specified delimiters.  Instead, what you get is
"max
> - 1" such substrings, plus the rest of the parent string as the final
result
> substring. 
> This behavior seems counter to what StringTokenizer would do, which is
> surprising, given the Javadoc comments about using the split methods as
> alternatives to StringTokenizer.
> 
> Currently, my tests reflect my expectations for the behavior, and I
modified
> the existing split( String, String, int ) method to match my expectations.
I
> didn't want to submit such a change as a proposed patch without first
getting
> feedback from the community about whether my expectations are wrong.  I am
> happy to submit only code that does not change the behavior of the
existing
> methods, if need be.
> 
> 
> Al
> 
> 
> --- Al Chou <ho...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > This thread is a good entree for my question.  I was adding a new 
> > StringUtils.split method that can split a string using a whole string 
> > as the delimiter, rather than the characters within that string.  In 
> > running my JUnit tests, I discovered unexpected behavior in the 
> > existing method:
> > 
> > String stringToSplitOnNulls = "ab   de fg" ;
> > String[] splitOnNullExpectedResults = { "ab", "de" } ;
> > 
> > String[] splitOnNullResults = StringUtils.split( stringToSplitOnNulls, 
> > null, 2
> > ) ;
> > assertEquals( splitOnNullExpectedResults.length, 
> > splitOnNullResults.length ) ; for ( int i = 0 ; i < 
> > splitOnNullExpectedResults.length ; i+= 1 ) {
> >     assertEquals( splitOnNullExpectedResults[i], splitOnNullResults[i] )
;
> > }
> > 
> > 
> > The result of the split call is
> > 
> > "ab", "de fg"
> > 
> > and it doesn't look to me like StringTokenizer's documentation implies 
> > this behavior....
> > 
> > 
> > Al

=====
Albert Davidson Chou

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