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Michael Knapp commented on LANG-860:
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I beg to differ, commons-csv assumes there can be an escape character, my code
assumes there can be an escape pattern. My code handles a much more broad
range of problems than CSV. For example, what if you want to get all the
parenthesized text out of a document? commons-csv cannot do that because '('
and ')' are different characters. Commons-csv offers no method to retain
delimiters that you split on, my code does. Let's say you split on the pattern
of open and closed parentheses: no existing split function in commons-lang, and
no function in commons-csv, is able to retain the text that matched your
delimiter, but my code does. The code I wrote does not replace commons-csv,
nor does it try. Commons-csv handles comments, empty lines, trimming text, and
a whole lot more which is out of the scope of my code. Also, if you expect
anybody to use commons-csv, you should really put it on the central maven
repository, and document it a little more.
> String split with an escape pattern
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>
> Key: LANG-860
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-860
> Project: Commons Lang
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: lang.*
> Reporter: Michael Knapp
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: patch, split
> Attachments: StringUtilsSplitEscapingly.patch
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> Original Estimate: 1h
> Remaining Estimate: 1h
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> Often times there are strings which are delimited, but certain patterns can
> escape the delimiter. For example, quotes are used in CSV to escape a comma
> delimiter. I have written a couple methods for StringUtils that split
> strings while considering the possibility of an escape pattern. For example,
> when given "a,\"b,c\",c", it will produce {"a","\"b,c\"","c"}. In my code,
> the delimiter can be a string, and it can be escaped by any regular
> expression pattern. Unit tests are already written and passing.
> I plan to attach the patch for this once the ticket is created. I just need
> a committer to review the patch, approve, and commit it for me.
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