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Benedikt Ritter updated LANG-1030:
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    Description: 
This is pretty easy to do but I have seen this come up and was surprised to 
find that StringUtils didn't have a utility method.

The difference() method is described as doing the following:
Compares two Strings, and returns the portion where they differ.

What I am proposing is essentially the opposite of the difference method called 
same().  This method would compare two String and return a new String when they 
are the same.

This is essentially the implementation:

{code:java}
    public static String same(String str1, String str2) {
        if (str1 != null && StringUtils.equalsIgnoreCase(str1, str2)) {
            return new String(str1);
        }
        return null;
    }
{code}

{code:java}
StringUtils.same(null, null) = null
StringUtils.same("", "") = "";
StringUtils.same("123", "") = null
StringUtils.same("123", "123") = "123";
{code}

If there is already a way to do this using the apache lang library please point 
me in the right direction.  Otherwise I would be more than happy to do the 
testing, coding and documentation for this.

  was:
This is pretty easy to do but I have seen this come up and was surprised to 
find that StringUtils didn't have a utility method.

The difference() method is described as doing the following:
Compares two Strings, and returns the portion where they differ.

What I am proposing is essentially the opposite of the difference method called 
same().  This method would compare two String and return a new String when they 
are the same.

This is essentially the implementation:
    public static String same(String str1, String str2) {
        if (str1 != null && StringUtils.equalsIgnoreCase(str1, str2)) {
            return new String(str1);
        }
        return null;
    }


StringUtils.same(null, null) = null
StringUtils.same("", "") = "";
StringUtils.same("123", "") = null
StringUtils.same("123", "123") = "123";

If there is already a way to do this using the apache lang library please point 
me in the right direction.  Otherwise I would be more than happy to do the 
testing, coding and documentation for this.


> StringUtils.same opposite method to StringUtils.differ
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LANG-1030
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1030
>             Project: Commons Lang
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 3.3.2
>            Reporter: Michael Bazos
>            Priority: Trivial
>              Labels: StringUtils
>
> This is pretty easy to do but I have seen this come up and was surprised to 
> find that StringUtils didn't have a utility method.
> The difference() method is described as doing the following:
> Compares two Strings, and returns the portion where they differ.
> What I am proposing is essentially the opposite of the difference method 
> called same().  This method would compare two String and return a new String 
> when they are the same.
> This is essentially the implementation:
> {code:java}
>     public static String same(String str1, String str2) {
>         if (str1 != null && StringUtils.equalsIgnoreCase(str1, str2)) {
>             return new String(str1);
>         }
>         return null;
>     }
> {code}
> {code:java}
> StringUtils.same(null, null) = null
> StringUtils.same("", "") = "";
> StringUtils.same("123", "") = null
> StringUtils.same("123", "123") = "123";
> {code}
> If there is already a way to do this using the apache lang library please 
> point me in the right direction.  Otherwise I would be more than happy to do 
> the testing, coding and documentation for this.



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