org.languagetool.rules.patterns

Class StringMatcher

java.lang.Object

org.languagetool.rules.patterns.StringMatcher

public abstract class StringMatcher
extends Object

An object encapsulating a text pattern and the way it's matched (case-sensitivity / regular expression), plus some optimizations over standard regular expression matching.

Since:

5.3

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static int	MAX_MATCH_LENGTH

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static StringMatcher	create(String pattern, boolean isRegExp, boolean caseSensitive)
abstract Set<String>	getPossibleValues()
abstract boolean	matches(String s)
static StringMatcher	regexp(String pattern) Create a case-sensitive regexp matcher.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

MAX_MATCH_LENGTH

public static final int MAX_MATCH_LENGTH

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getPossibleValues

@Nullable
public abstract Set<String> getPossibleValues()

Returns:

all values that this matcher can possibly accept (e.g. extracted from regexps like "foo|bar"), or null if it's not possible to determine those.

matches

public abstract boolean matches(String s)

Returns:

whether the given string is accepted by this matcher.

regexp

public static StringMatcher regexp(String pattern)

Create a case-sensitive regexp matcher.

Since:

5.6

create

public static StringMatcher create(String pattern,
                                   boolean isRegExp,
                                   boolean caseSensitive)