Implements: IWordState

Description

The GenericWordState class allows you to create a WordState that returns a word from a scanner.

Important points

• Like other states, a tokenizer transfers the job of reading to this state, depending on an initial character.
• This state determines which characters may appear as a second or later character in a word. These are typically different sets of characters; in particular, it is typical for digits to appear as parts of a word, but not as the initial character of a word.
• By default, the following characters may appear in a word (The method setWordChars() allows customizing this):

From     To
 'a',    'z'
 'A',    'Z'
 '0',    '9'

As well as: minus sign, underscore, and apostrophe.

Constructors

Constructs a word state with a default idea of what characters are admissible inside a word (as described in the class comment).

public GenericWordState() throws Exception

Instance methods

clearWordChars

Clears definitions of word chars.

public void clearWordChars()

nextToken

Ignores a word (such as blanks and tabs), and returns the tokenizer’s next token.

public Token nextToken(IScanner scanner, ITokenizer tokenizer) throws Exception

• scanner: IScanner - textual string to be tokenized.
• tokenizer: ITokenizer - tokenizer class that controls the process.
• returns: Token - next token from the top of the stream.

setWordChars

Establishes characters in the given range as valid characters for part of a word after the first character. Note that the tokenizer must determine which characters are valid as the beginning character of a word.

public void setWordChars(int fromSymbol, int toSymbol, boolean enable) throws Exception

• fromSymbol: int - first character index of the interval.
• toSymbol: int - last character index of the interval.
• enable: boolean - true if this state should ignore characters in the given range.