util
Class TokenizedLinesReader

java.lang.Object
  extended by 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.