Github user sebbASF commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/pull/336#discussion_r200857105
--- Diff: src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/ArrayUtils.java ---
@@ -8672,4 +8672,53 @@ public static void shuffle(final double[] array,
final Random random) {
swap(array, i - 1, random.nextInt(i), 1);
}
}
+
+ /**
+ * Gets an element from the array if the array is non-null and
appropriately long, otherwise returns null
+ * @param <T> the component type of the array
+ * @param array the array holding the desired element
+ * @param index the index of the element in the array
+ * @return The element in the array at the index, or null if it is
ill-formatted
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What does ill-formatted mean?
Can also return null if the array element is present and null.
I don't think this method is sufficiently useful to be worth adding
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