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package com.rapidminer.tools.expression.internal.function.text;
import java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException;
import com.rapidminer.tools.expression.FunctionInputException;
/**
* This {@link Function} checks whether any substring of a nominal Value matches a regular
* expression.
*
* @author Thilo Kamradt
*
*/
public class Finds extends Abstract2StringInputBooleanOutputFunction {
/**
* Creates a function which checks whether any substring of a nominal Value matches a regular
* expression
*/
public Finds() {
super("text_information.finds");
}
@Override
protected Boolean compute(String value1, String value2) {
if (value1 == null || value2 == null) {
return null;
}
try {
return value1.matches(".*" + value2 + ".*");
} catch (PatternSyntaxException e) {
throw new FunctionInputException("process.error.invalid_regex", value2);
}
}
}