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).

GenericWordState()

Instance methods

clear_word_chars

Clears definitions of word chars.

clear_word_chars()

next_token

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

next_token(scanner: IScanner, tokenizer: ITokenizer): Token

• 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.

set_word_chars

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.

set_word_chars(from_symbol: int, to_symbol: int, enable: bool)

• from_symbol: int - first character index of the interval.
• to_symbol: int - last character index of the interval.
• enable: bool - true if this state should ignore characters in the given range.