compareToAscii( RTL_CONSTASCII_STRINGPARAM( "something" ) )

[Lubos Lunak]

On Thursday 06 of September 2012, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> On 09/06/2012 09:37 AM, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
> > hunk.  In this case, the use of RTL_CONSTASCII_STRINGPARAM() kind of
> > simulates "startsWith" (that we do not have as a method); ie. for
> > rQAttributeName == "xmlns:SOMETHING":
> >
> > rQAttributeName.compareToAscii( RTL_CONSTASCII_STRINGPARAM("xmlns:") ) ==
> > 0
> >
> > but
> >
> > rQAttributeName.compareToAscii( "xmlns:" ) > 0
>
> Good catch; and the different semantics of the compareTo... overloads is
> a horrible gotcha indeed.
...
> > cases to that?  Or even better, introduce a startsWith() [or just
> > startsWithAscii() for the optimized case] method, like we did with the
> > isEmpty()...
>
> Note that "startsWith" is already covered by the various existing
> match... functions, with a default fromIndex = 0.

 Which is rather non-obvious both when writing and reading code, 
as 'str.match( "foo" )' intuitively suggests 'str == "foo"', so it's not 
really good API either. I've had startsWith() on my list for quite a while, 
so I've added it now.

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 Lubos Lunak
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