org.acmsl.regexpplugin
Interface Matcher

All Superinterfaces:

org.acmsl.version.Versionable

All Known Implementing Classes:

AwkMatcherOROAdapter, MatcherGNUAdapter, MatcherRegexpAdapter, Perl5MatcherOROAdapter

public interface Matcher

extends org.acmsl.version.Versionable

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

Version:

$Revision: 1.5 $

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

boolean	contains(java.lang.String text, Pattern pattern) Checks if given text contains specified pattern.
MatchResult	getMatch() Retrieves the last match found due to a previous call to contains method.

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

contains

public boolean contains(java.lang.String text,
                        Pattern pattern)

Checks if given text contains specified pattern.

Parameters:

text - the text to analyze.

pattern - the regular expression to apply.

Returns:

true if the pattern is found.

getMatch

public MatchResult getMatch()

Retrieves the last match found due to a previous call to contains method.

Returns:

such match result.