org.acmsl.regexpplugin
Interface Helper

All Superinterfaces:

org.acmsl.version.Versionable

All Known Implementing Classes:

HelperGNUAdapter, HelperOROAdapter, HelperRegexpAdapter

public interface Helper

extends org.acmsl.version.Versionable

Represents a regexp helper. Different implementations vary but they all must respect this set of methods.

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $

Author:

Jose San Leandro Armend?riz

Field Summary

static org.acmsl.version.Version

VERSION Concrete version object updated everytime it's checked-in in a CVS repository.

Method Summary

java.lang.String

replaceAll(java.lang.String input, java.lang.String pattern, java.lang.String replacement) Finds all occurrences of a specified pattern in given input contents, and replaces them with passed String.

Methods inherited from interface org.acmsl.version.Versionable

getVersion

Field Detail

VERSION

public static final org.acmsl.version.Version VERSION

Concrete version object updated everytime it's checked-in in a CVS repository.

Method Detail

replaceAll

public java.lang.String replaceAll(java.lang.String input,
                                   java.lang.String pattern,
                                   java.lang.String replacement)
                            throws MalformedPatternException

Finds all occurrences of a specified pattern in given input contents, and replaces them with passed String.

Parameters:

input - the input text to process.

pattern - the pattern to replace.

replacement - the replacement text.

Returns:

the updated input.

Throws:

MalformedPatternException - if given regexp is malformed.