private static String expand()

in maven-3.0.x/src/main/java/org/sonatype/aether/util/artifact/SubArtifact.java [163:201]

• 38 lines of code
• 11 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    private static String expand( String pattern, String replacement )
    {
        String result = "";
        if ( pattern != null )
        {
            result = pattern.replace( "*", replacement );

            if ( replacement.length() <= 0 )
            {
                if ( pattern.startsWith( "*" ) )
                {
                    int i = 0;
                    for ( ; i < result.length(); i++ )
                    {
                        char c = result.charAt( i );
                        if ( c != '-' && c != '.' )
                        {
                            break;
                        }
                    }
                    result = result.substring( i );
                }
                if ( pattern.endsWith( "*" ) )
                {
                    int i = result.length() - 1;
                    for ( ; i >= 0; i-- )
                    {
                        char c = result.charAt( i );
                        if ( c != '-' && c != '.' )
                        {
                            break;
                        }
                    }
                    result = result.substring( 0, i + 1 );
                }
            }
        }
        return result;
    }