gnu.regexp

Class REFilterReader


public class REFilterReader
extends FilterReader

Replaces instances of a given RE with replacement text.

Author:
Lee Sau Dan

Since:
gnu.regexp 1.1.0

Constructor Summary

REFilterReader(Reader stream, RE expr, String replace)
Creates an REFilterReader.

Method Summary

boolean
markSupported()
Returns false.
int
read()
Reads the next character from the stream per the general contract of Reader.read().
int
read(char[] b)
Reads from the stream into the provided array.
int
read(char[] b, int off, int len)
Reads from the stream into the provided array.

Constructor Details

REFilterReader

public REFilterReader(Reader stream,
                      RE expr,
                      String replace)
Creates an REFilterReader. When reading from this stream, occurrences of patterns matching the supplied regular expression will be replaced with the supplied replacement text (the metacharacters $0 through $9 may be used to refer to the full match or subexpression matches.

Parameters:
stream - The Reader to be filtered.
expr - The regular expression to search for.
replace - The text pattern to replace matches with.

Method Details

markSupported

public boolean markSupported()
Returns false. REFilterReader does not support mark() and reset() methods.


read

public int read()
Reads the next character from the stream per the general contract of Reader.read(). Returns -1 on error or end of stream.


read

public int read(char[] b)
Reads from the stream into the provided array.


read

public int read(char[] b,
                int off,
                int len)
Reads from the stream into the provided array.