[LANG-1238] Add RegexUtils class instead of overloading methods in StringUtils that take a regex to take precompiled Pattern

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.4
• Fix Version/s: 3.8
• Component/s: lang.*
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Christopher Cordeiro
• Created: 24/May/16 15:52
• Updated: 21/Aug/18 13:08
• Resolved: 17/May/18 23:20

Description

For performance reasons, it would be nice if the operations in StringUtils that take a regular expression (removePattern/replacePattern) were overloaded to optionally take a precompiled Pattern.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #328