Oh I see. No problem.

re scanf vs scanner: scanf takes a pattern, an input string of values in format of pattern, and an array of reference variables. It parses the input string according to the pattern (using all the same types and qualifications as printf) and puts the resulting values in the variables.

scanner merely tokenizes the input string according to a given separator character and knows nothing about class types - only primitives.



Maurizio Cucchiara on 13/03/11 18:00, wrote:
I'm sorry, but unfortunately I have any implementation and to be
frankly I don't understand why Marting thought so :).
Adam, again, why do you prefer scanf to scanner?


On 13 March 2011 15:53, Adam Hardy <ahardy.str...@cyberspaceroad.com> wrote:
I actually hoped I would find it in commons lang already - I was only asking
on the struts list because I know the user list here is so much more diverse
and would more likely know if it existed already somewhere.

Do you Maurizio already have a scanf implementation? Or am I misinterpreting
Martin's message to you?

I should think it's about a day's work, with tests, plus a bit of thought
needs to go into the design to make the parsing of the pattern string
cacheable. That's why I was hoping to avoid writing scanf from scratch. But
it looks like I'll have to make do with a temporary fix using Scanner on
just the bits I need right now.

Maurizio Cucchiara on 13/03/11 09:52, wrote:
I think that the right place for this kind of questions is apache commons
lang ml.

Maurizio Cucchiara

Il giorno 13/mar/2011 02.26, "Martin Gainty" <mgai...@hotmail.com> ha
scritto:
you can use String constructor to construct what you need from any part
of a previous String
then use StringBuffer to concat the Strings together
but Scanner will work too.

Maurizio can you put a scanf method in StringTools that uses scanner to
replicate scanf functionality and send it to d...@struts.apache.org?
thanks,
Martin


Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:16:44 +0100
Subject: Re: RE: Just a stab in the dark
From: maurizio.cucchi...@gmail.com
To: user@struts.apache.org

Why do you prefer scanf to scanner class?
I could be wrong, but I don't believe it is possible cause of the
immutability of the string class (you cannot pass a string object as
reference).

Maurizio Cucchiara

Il giorno 12/mar/2011 15.22, "Martin Gainty" <mgai...@hotmail.com> ha
scritto:

havent seen scanf method in any of the Java classes
i welcome factoring a scanf method in
org.apache.struts2.convention.StringTools

anyone ?
Martin


Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:57:17 +0000
From: ahardy.str...@cyberspaceroad.com
To: user@struts.apache.org
Subject: Just a stab in the dark
Hi List

this is a bit OT but it's the weekend and I have a question which I am
desperat...


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