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Class FormatParser

java.lang.Object
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public class FormatParser

extends java.lang.Object

FormatParser class tokenizes given Format content to its variables and non-variables. Variables are String sequences , which matches with regular expression, "$[a-zA-Z]+" . Non-variables are the String tokens that are left when variables are fetched.

  "$month $year $day" => "$month", " ", "$year", " ", "$day"
 

Status:

design complete, implementation complete

Field Summary

private java.lang.String	input String input that will be tokenized
private java.util.regex.Matcher	matcher Matcher class of java.util.regex, that will be used when finding variable patterns in input string
private java.util.regex.Pattern	pattern Pattern class of java.util.regex, that will be used when finding variable patterns in input string
private java.lang.String	varPattern

Constructor Summary

protected

FormatParser(java.lang.String input) Constructs a FormatParser object, which is ready to parse given input.

Method Summary

protected java.lang.String[]

parseFormat(boolean variablesOnly) Returns tokens, which are resulted from parsing process.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

input

private java.lang.String input

String input that will be tokenized

varPattern

private java.lang.String varPattern

pattern

private java.util.regex.Pattern pattern

Pattern class of java.util.regex, that will be used when finding variable patterns in input string

matcher

private java.util.regex.Matcher matcher

Matcher class of java.util.regex, that will be used when finding variable patterns in input string

Constructor Detail

FormatParser

protected FormatParser(java.lang.String input)

Constructs a FormatParser object, which is ready to parse given input.

Parameters:

input - String, which will be tokenized into its tokens

Method Detail

parseFormat

protected java.lang.String[] parseFormat(boolean variablesOnly)

Returns tokens, which are resulted from parsing process.

Parameters:

variablesOnly - a boolean variable, which determines if all tokens or just variable tokens will be returned

Returns:

array of String, which include resulted tokens