diff --git a/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/java/migrate/apache/commons/lang/ApacheCommonsStringUtils.java b/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/java/migrate/apache/commons/lang/ApacheCommonsStringUtils.java
index 1d2039ada9..7f4a45b367 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/java/migrate/apache/commons/lang/ApacheCommonsStringUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/java/migrate/apache/commons/lang/ApacheCommonsStringUtils.java
@@ -194,7 +194,11 @@ boolean after(String s) {
     public static class IsAlphanumericSpace {
         @BeforeTemplate
         boolean before(String s) {
-            return StringUtils.isAlphanumericSpace("^[a-zA-Z0-9\\s]*$");
+            return StringUtils.isAlphanumericSpace(s);
+        }
+
+        boolean after(String s) {
+            return s.matches("^[a-zA-Z0-9\\s]*$");
         }
     }