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Sebb edited comment on LANG-1046 at 3/12/15 4:28 PM:
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The string "alphabet" matches "alpha.*" and starts with "alph.".
Both of these are directly supported by Java. They are anchored to the start of
the string.
It also contains "ph.b", but matching this is not directly supported.
was (Author: [email protected]):
The string "alphabet" matches "alpha.*" and starts with "alph.".
Both of these are supported. They are anchored to the start of the string.
It also contains "ph.b", but matching this is not directly supported.
> containsPattern method for StringUtils?
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> Key: LANG-1046
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1046
> Project: Commons Lang
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: lang.*
> Reporter: Sebb
> Fix For: Discussion
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> The JVM Matcher class only supports anchored matches.
> It might perhaps be useful to add a containsPattern(CharSequence input,
> String pattern) method that returns true if the input contains the pattern.
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