util
Class TokenizedLinesReader

java.lang.Object
  util.TokenizedLinesReader

public class TokenizedLinesReader
extends java.lang.Object

An instance of this class presents the lines of a given buffered reader as a sequence of token-string arrays. The format of a token is defined with reference to a set of delimiter characters specified by the client: each character sequence separated by a group of one or more delimiters is a token, and each individual delimiter character itself also qualifies as a token.

Unitl 2007-02 this class was named StreamTokensReader.

Constructor Summary

TokenizedLinesReader(java.io.Reader rdr, java.lang.String delimsre)
Creates a new tokenized lines reader, backed by the given reader, and using the given regex for a non-empty sequence of delimiter characters.

Method Summary

java.lang.String[]

getLineAsTokens() Returns the next line, as an array of tokens;

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

TokenizedLinesReader

public TokenizedLinesReader(java.io.Reader rdr,
                            java.lang.String delimsre)

Creates a new tokenized lines reader, backed by the given reader, and using the given regex for a non-empty sequence of delimiter characters.

Parameters:

rdr - The base source Reader for this Reader.

delimsre - Regular expression for a non-empty sequence of delimiter characters, of the form "[...]+", to be used when tokenising the lines from the Reader.

Method Detail

getLineAsTokens

public java.lang.String[] getLineAsTokens()

Returns the next line, as an array of tokens;

Returns:

Array of token strings, or null if the end of the reader stream has been reached.