[JEXL-208] Documentation typos/inconsistencies

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.1

Environment

(Chrome MacOSX)

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Joe Tom
• Created: 01/Aug/16 21:00
• Updated: 27/Aug/16 09:41
• Resolved: 01/Aug/16 22:22

Description

Noticed on https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-jexl/reference/syntax.html that there are two operands that are defined then in the examples reversed.

Starts With=^
The syntactically ... "abcdef" ^= "abc" returns true. Note that through duck-typing, user classes exposing a public 'startsWith' method will allow their instances to behave has left-hand-size operands of this operator.

AND

Not Starts With!^
This is the negation of the 'starts with' operator. a ^! "abc" is ...