String.
* For a given range of text, a beginning and ending index,
* as well as a current index are defined. These values can be queried
* by the methods in this interface. Additionally, various methods allow
* the index to be set.
*
* @author Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com)
* @author Tom Tromey StringCharacterIterator to iterate over the entire
* text of the specified String. The initial index
* value will be set to the first character in the string.
*
* @param text The String to iterate through.
*/
public StringCharacterIterator (String text)
{
this (text, 0, text.length (), 0);
}
/*************************************************************************/
/**
* This method initializes a new instance of
* StringCharacterIterator to iterate over the entire
* text of the specified String. The initial index
* value will be set to the specified value.
*
* @param text The String to iterate through.
* @param index The initial index position.
*/
public StringCharacterIterator (String text, int index)
{
this (text, 0, text.length (), index);
}
/*************************************************************************/
/**
* This method initializes a new instance of
* StringCharacterIterator that iterates over the text
* in a subrange of the specified String. The
* beginning and end of the range are specified by the caller, as is
* the initial index position.
*
* @param text The String to iterate through.
* @param begin The beginning position in the character range.
* @param end The ending position in the character range.
* @param index The initial index position.
*
* @param IllegalArgumentException If any of the range values are
* invalid.
*/
public StringCharacterIterator (String text, int begin, int end, int index)
{
int len = text.length ();
if ((begin < 0) || (begin > len))
throw new IllegalArgumentException ("Bad begin position");
if ((end < begin) || (end > len))
throw new IllegalArgumentException ("Bad end position");
if ((index < begin) || (index > end))
throw new IllegalArgumentException ("Bad initial index position");
this.text = text;
this.begin = begin;
this.end = end;
this.index = index;
}
/**
* This is a package level constructor that copies the text out of
* an existing StringCharacterIterator and resets the beginning and
* ending index.
*
* @param scci The StringCharacterIterator to copy the info from
* @param begin The beginning index of the range we are interested in.
* @param end The ending index of the range we are interested in.
*/
StringCharacterIterator (StringCharacterIterator sci, int begin, int end)
{
this (sci.text, begin, end, begin);
}
/**
* This method returns the character at the current index position
*
* @return The character at the current index position.
*/
public char current ()
{
return (index < end) ? text.charAt (index) : DONE;
}
/*************************************************************************/
/**
* This method increments the current index and then returns the
* character at the new index value. If the index is already at
* getEndIndex () - 1, it will not be incremented.
*
* @return The character at the position of the incremented index
* value, or DONE if the index has reached
* getEndIndex () - 1.
*/
public char next ()
{
if (index == end)
return DONE;
++index;
return current ();
}
/*************************************************************************/
/**
* This method decrements the current index and then returns the
* character at the new index value. If the index value is already
* at the beginning index, it will not be decremented.
*
* @return The character at the position of the decremented index
* value, or DONE if index was already equal to the
* beginning index value.
*/
public char previous ()
{
if (index == begin)
return DONE;
--index;
return current ();
}
/*************************************************************************/
/**
* This method sets the index value to the beginning of the range and returns
* the character there.
*
* @return The character at the beginning of the range, or
* DONE if the range is empty.
*/
public char first ()
{
index = begin;
return current ();
}
/*************************************************************************/
/**
* This method sets the index value to getEndIndex () - 1 and
* returns the character there. If the range is empty, then the index value
* will be set equal to the beginning index.
*
* @return The character at the end of the range, or
* DONE if the range is empty.
*/
public char last ()
{
if (end == begin)
return DONE;
index = end - 1;
return current ();
}
/*************************************************************************/
/**
* This method returns the current value of the index.
*
* @return The current index value
*/
public int getIndex ()
{
return index;
}
/*************************************************************************/
/**
* This method sets the value of the index to the specified value, then
* returns the character at that position.
*
* @param index The new index value.
*
* @return The character at the new index value or DONE
* if the index value is equal to getEndIndex.
*
* @exception IllegalArgumentException If the specified index is not valid
*/
public char setIndex (int index)
{
if ((index < begin) || (index > end))
throw new IllegalArgumentException ("Bad index specified");
this.index = index;
return current ();
}
/*************************************************************************/
/**
* This method returns the character position of the first character in the
* range.
*
* @return The index of the first character in the range.
*/
public int getBeginIndex ()
{
return begin;
}
/*************************************************************************/
/**
* This method returns the character position of the end of the text range.
* This will actually be the index of the first character following the
* end of the range. In the event the text range is empty, this will be
* equal to the first character in the range.
*
* @return The index of the end of the range.
*/
public int getEndIndex ()
{
return end;
}
/*************************************************************************/
/**
* This method creates a copy of this CharacterIterator.
*
* @return A copy of this CharacterIterator.
*/
public Object clone ()
{
return new StringCharacterIterator (text, begin, end, index);
}
/*************************************************************************/
/**
* This method tests this object for equality againt the specified
* object. This will be true if and only if the specified object:
* *
null.StringCharacterIteratortrue if the specified object is equal to this
* object, false otherwise.
*/
public boolean equals (Object obj)
{
if (! (obj instanceof StringCharacterIterator))
return false;
StringCharacterIterator sci = (StringCharacterIterator) obj;
return (begin == sci.begin
&& end == sci.end
&& index == sci.index
&& text.equals (sci.text));
}
/*************************************************************************/
/**
* This method allows other classes in java.text to change the value
* of the underlying text being iterated through.
*
* @param text The new String to iterate through.
*/
public void setText (String text)
{
this.text = text;
this.begin = 0;
this.end = text.length ();
this.index = 0;
}
}