[GROOVY-3718] Regular-Expression-Evaluates-Null-As-True

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.5, 1.7-beta-2
• Component/s: regular expressions
• Assignee: Roshan Dawrani
• Reporter: Roshan Dawrani
• Created: 31/Aug/09 22:09
• Updated: 15/Oct/09 17:15
• Resolved: 31/Aug/09 23:18

Description

Issue reported groovy-user forum: http://www.nabble.com/Regular-Expression-Evaluates-Null-As-True--to25223536.html

/ * Returns true */
println null ==~ /[^0-9]+/

/ * Returns false */
println null ==~ /[0-9]+/

In both the cases, it should probably just throw NPE.