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Henri Biestro commented on JEXL-133: ------------------------------------ Good idea. For coherence, it might be better to name them '=^' and '=$' (since the matching operator is '=~'). And generalize the 'start with' and 'ends with' for any ordered sequence (Object[], List<?>...). The following test (in Jexl3) exhibits the intended behavior on String. {code} public void test133() throws Exception { JexlEngine jexl = new Engine(); JexlScript script; Object result; script = jexl.createScript("x =^ 'foo'", "x"); result = script.execute(null, "foobar"); assertEquals(Boolean.TRUE, result); result = script.execute(null, "barfoo"); assertEquals(Boolean.FALSE, result); script = jexl.createScript("x =$ 'foo'", "x"); result = script.execute(null, "foobar"); assertEquals(Boolean.FALSE, result); result = script.execute(null, "barfoo"); assertEquals(Boolean.TRUE, result); } {code} > String matching Operator short-hand inspired by CSS3 > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: JEXL-133 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-133 > Project: Commons JEXL > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 2.1.1 > Reporter: Alfred Reibenschuh > Assignee: Henri Biestro > Priority: Trivial > Fix For: 3.0 > > > like the perl inspired shorthand "=~", css3 also has some nice shorthands > http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-css3-selectors-20110929/#attribute-selectors > for "startsWith" the shorthand could be "expr1 ^= expr2" > for "endsWith" the shorthand could be "expr1 $= expr2" > it could be that the "^=" operator already collides with "xor and assign" > which i haven't looked at as of now. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira