Alexander Tsvetkov created LANG-1412:
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Summary: Add toArray method to CharSet
Key: LANG-1412
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1412
Project: Commons Lang
Issue Type: New Feature
Reporter: Alexander Tsvetkov
We have a project where we generate a random string from a set of legal
characters like this:
{code:java}
StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder(length);
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
int randomIndex = randomGenerator.nextInt(LEGAL_CHARACTERS.length);
stringBuilder.append(LEGAL_CHARACTERS[randomIndex]);
}
return stringBuilder.toString();
{code}
Where LEGAL_CHARACTERS is a char array. The problem is that initializing the
LEGAL_CHARACTERS array is not very pretty and we would like to do it this way:
{code:java}
private static final char[] LEGAL_CHARACTERS = CharSet.getInstance("A-Z",
"a-z", "0-9", "-", "_@()&#*[]").toArray();
{code}
Do you think this would be a good addition to Commons Lang in general? If yes,
then is CharSet the right place for that?
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