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git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/commons/proper/io/trunk@418642 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

Author: Stephen Colebourne

src/java/org/apache/commons/io/filefilter/WildcardFileFilter.java

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
  * </pre>
  *
  * @author Jason Anderson
- * @version $Revision: 155419 $ $Date$
+ * @version $Revision: 155419 $ $Date: 2006-06-26 00:19:58 +0100 (Mon, 26 Jun 2006) $
  * @since Commons IO 1.3
  */
 public class WildcardFileFilter extends AbstractFileFilter {
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ public WildcardFileFilter(String wildcard, IOCase caseSensitivity) {
 
     /**
      * Construct a new case-sensitive wildcard filter for an array of wildcards.
+     * <p>
+     * The array is not cloned, so could be changed after constructing the
+     * instance. This would be inadvisable however.
      *
      * @param wildcards  the array of wildcards to match
      * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the pattern array is null
@@ -76,6 +79,9 @@ public WildcardFileFilter(String[] wildcards) {
 
     /**
      * Construct a new wildcard filter for an array of wildcards specifying case-sensitivity.
+     * <p>
+     * The array is not cloned, so could be changed after constructing the
+     * instance. This would be inadvisable however.
      *
      * @param wildcards  the array of wildcards to match, not null
      * @param caseSensitivity  how to handle case sensitivity, null means case-sensitive