Jan 16
Kirk talks about the new regionMatches(..) methods available in the Java 5 String class.
There were questions on readability, and Kirk has a benchmark to proove the micro-performance.
I think the methods definitely harder to grok at first, and there is room for helper methods (e.g. in the first case: foo.startsWithIgnoreCase(bar)).
Case-folding
startsWith()If you
