001/**
002 * Copyright 2010-2014 The Kuali Foundation
003 *
004 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007 *
008 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
009 *
010 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014 * limitations under the License.
015 */
016package org.kuali.common.util.filter;
017
018import java.util.ArrayList;
019import java.util.List;
020import java.util.regex.Pattern;
021
022public class RegexUtils {
023
024        /**
025         * Convert a {@code List<String>} into {@code List<Pattern>}
026         */
027        public static List<Pattern> getPatterns(List<String> patterns) {
028                List<Pattern> regexPatterns = new ArrayList<Pattern>();
029                for (String pattern : patterns) {
030                        Pattern regexPattern = Pattern.compile(pattern);
031                        regexPatterns.add(regexPattern);
032                }
033                return regexPatterns;
034        }
035
036}