gate.creole.morph
Class CharacterRange

java.lang.Object
  gate.creole.morph.Variable
      gate.creole.morph.CharacterRange

public class CharacterRange
extends Variable

Title:

Description:

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2003

Company:

Version:

1.0

Author:

not attributable

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class gate.creole.morph.Variable

pointer, varName, varValue

Constructor Summary

CharacterRange()
Constructor

Method Summary

boolean	contains(String value) A method that tells if the characters of the provided value are from the character range only
boolean	hasNext() Tells if any value available which can be retrieved
String	next() Returns the next available value for this variable
boolean	set(String varName, String varValue) Process the provided value and stores in the underlying data structure

Methods inherited from class gate.creole.morph.Variable

getPattern, resetPointer

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

CharacterRange

public CharacterRange()

Constructor

Method Detail

hasNext

public boolean hasNext()

Tells if any value available which can be retrieved

Specified by:

hasNext in class Variable

Returns:

true if value available, false otherwise

next

public String next()

Returns the next available value for this variable

Specified by:

next in class Variable

Returns:

value of the variable in the String format

set

public boolean set(String varName,
                   String varValue)

Process the provided value and stores in the underlying data structure

Specified by:

set in class Variable

Parameters:

varName - name of the variable

varValue - String that contains possible different values

Returns:

true if successfully stored, false otherwise

contains

public boolean contains(String value)

A method that tells if the characters of the provided value are from the character range only

Specified by:

contains in class Variable

Parameters:

value - String of which the characters to be searched in the character range

Returns:

true if all characters of value string are from the specified character range, false otherwise