org.writersforge.catalan.text.extractors
Class RegexpExtractor

java.lang.Object
  org.writersforge.catalan.text.extractors.RegexpExtractor

All Implemented Interfaces:

ITextExtractor

public class RegexpExtractor

extends java.lang.Object

implements ITextExtractor

Text extractor which extracts text from all parenthetical groups defined in the driving regular expression.

Author:

jsheets

Constructor Summary

RegexpExtractor(java.lang.String regexp, boolean isPerLine)
Creates a new instance of RegexpExtractor.

Method Summary

java.lang.String[]

extractText(java.lang.String text) Extracts fragments of text from the input text document.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

RegexpExtractor

public RegexpExtractor(java.lang.String regexp,
                       boolean isPerLine)

Creates a new instance of RegexpExtractor.

Parameters:

regexp - regular expression

isPerLine - true if the regular expression should be applied to each line, or false if it should be applied once to the entire text

Method Detail

extractText

public java.lang.String[] extractText(java.lang.String text)

Extracts fragments of text from the input text document.

This implementation extracts one fragment of text for each parenthetical regular expression group. If the expression has no groups, this method will return an empty array.

Specified by:

extractText in interface ITextExtractor

Parameters:

text - input text document

Returns:

extracted text fragments