Re: Iterating over an array style question
On 11/24/2010 2:49 PM, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
On 24-11-2010 14:20, Alex Mentis wrote:
Eric Sosman wrote:
BufferedReader rdr = ...;
for (String line; (line = rdr.readLine()) != null; ) // BZZZT!
Pattern patt = ...;
Matcher match = patt.matcher(...);
if (match.matches()) // BZZZT!
... and so on, and so on. Sounds like a silly school.
As for your code above, why not use:
BufferedReader rdr = ...;
String line = rdr.readLine();
while (line != null)
{
line = rdr.readLine();
}
That seems much clearer to me.
Two identical calls are not so nice.
Your second example doesn't appear to have a side-effect, so I'm not
sure what your point is there. match.matches() simply returns a
Boolean, which is what is expected in the condition part of the if
statement. It's not checking a condition and also changing some
variable before or after it's done.
Hm.
I checked the docs.
It seems as if you are correct.
But find instead of matches has the side effect. Eric
probably got those two mixed up.
"If the match succeeds then more information can be obtained via
the start, end, and group methods," says the Javadoc. Before a
successful match (via any of the matching methods), all these throw
IllegalStateException; after a successful match they all deliver data.
Changing the internal state of the Matcher is a side-effect in my
book, just as much as changing the state of a BufferedReader by
calling readLine().
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