Raw String Literal Library Support

[Paul Sandoz]

> On Mar 13, 2018, at 3:49 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mar 13, 2018, at 6:47 AM, Jim Laskey <james.laskey at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>> …
>> A. Line support.
>> 
>> public Stream<String> lines()
>> 
> 
> Suggest factoring this as:
> 
> public Stream<String> splits(String regex) { }

+1

This is a natural companion to the existing array returning method (as it was the case on Pattern when we added splitAsStream), where one can use a limit() operation to achieve the same effect as the limit parameter on the array returning method.


> public Stream<String> lines() { return splits(`\n|\r\n?`); }
> 

See also Files/BufferedReader.lines. (Without going into details Files.lines has some interesting optimizations.)

Paul.