Re: Iterating over an array style question
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.
Arne
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