[JEXL-133] String matching Operator short-hand inspired by CSS3

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 3.0
• Assignee: Henri Biestro
• Reporter: Alfred Reibenschuh
• Created: 28/Jun/12 10:06
• Updated: 21/Mar/16 14:10
• Resolved: 31/Jul/12 14:33

Description

like the perl inspired shorthand "=~", css3 also has some nice shorthands

http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-css3-selectors-20110929/#attribute-selectors

for "startsWith" the shorthand could be "expr1 ^= expr2"
for "endsWith" the shorthand could be "expr1 $= expr2"

it could be that the "^=" operator already collides with "xor and assign" which i haven't looked at as of now.