private List compilePatterns()

in src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/changelog/ChangeLogReport.java [804:824]

• 18 lines of code
• 3 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    private List<Pattern> compilePatterns( String[] patternArray )
    {
        if ( patternArray == null )
        {
            return new ArrayList<Pattern>();
        }
        List<Pattern> patterns = new ArrayList<Pattern>( patternArray.length );
        for ( String string : patternArray )
        {
            //replaces * with [/\]* (everything but file seperators)
            //replaces ** with .*
            //quotes the rest of the string
            string = "\\Q" + string + "\\E";
            string = string.replace( "**", "\\E.?REPLACEMENT?\\Q" );
            string = string.replace( "*", "\\E[^/\\\\]?REPLACEMENT?\\Q" );
            string = string.replace( "?REPLACEMENT?", "*" );
            string = string.replace( "\\Q\\E", "" );
            patterns.add( Pattern.compile( string ) );
        }
        return patterns;
    }