From db456f2f89329d75e089f6cfbb6e4d944401a62b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Gary D. Gregory" <ggregory@apache.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:27:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Eat own dog food: Use EMPTY instead of "".

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/lang/trunk@619115 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils.java | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils.java b/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils.java
index 7b5ff20ff..6c24ff9d7 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils.java
@@ -2351,7 +2351,7 @@ public class StringUtils {
             return ArrayUtils.EMPTY_STRING_ARRAY;
         }
 
-        if ( ( separator == null ) || ( "".equals( separator ) ) ) {
+        if ( ( separator == null ) || ( EMPTY.equals( separator ) ) ) {
             // Split on whitespace.
             return splitWorker( str, null, max, preserveAllTokens ) ;
         }
@@ -2391,7 +2391,7 @@ public class StringUtils {
                             end = len ;
                             substrings.add( str.substring( beg ) ) ;
                         } else {
-                            substrings.add( "" );
+                            substrings.add( EMPTY );
                         }
                     }
                     beg = end + separatorLength ;
@@ -3377,7 +3377,7 @@ public class StringUtils {
         if (isEmpty(str) || isEmpty(remove)) {
             return str;
         }
-        return replace(str, remove, "", -1);
+        return replace(str, remove, EMPTY, -1);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -3856,7 +3856,7 @@ public class StringUtils {
             return str;
         }
         if (replaceChars == null) {
-            replaceChars = "";
+            replaceChars = EMPTY;
         }
         boolean modified = false;
         int replaceCharsLength = replaceChars.length();