org.apache.oro.text.awk

Class AwkPattern

java.lang.Object

org.apache.oro.text.awk.AwkPattern

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, Pattern

public final class AwkPattern
extends java.lang.Object
implements Pattern, java.io.Serializable

An implementation of the Pattern interface for Awk regular expressions. This class is compatible with the AwkCompiler and AwkMatcher classes. When an AwkCompiler instance compiles a regular expression pattern, it produces an AwkPattern instance containing internal data structures used by AwkMatcher to perform pattern matches. This class cannot be subclassed and cannot be directly instantiated by the programmer as it would not make sense. It is however serializable so that pre-compiled patterns may be saved to disk and re-read at a later time. AwkPattern instances should only be created through calls to an AwkCompiler instance's compile() methods

Since:

1.0

Version:

2.0.8

See Also:

AwkCompiler, AwkMatcher, Serialized Form

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	getOptions() This method returns an integer containing the compilation options used to compile this pattern.
java.lang.String	getPattern() This method returns the string representation of the pattern.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

getPattern

public java.lang.String getPattern()

This method returns the string representation of the pattern.

Specified by:

getPattern in interface Pattern

Returns:

The original string representation of the regular expression pattern.

getOptions

public int getOptions()

This method returns an integer containing the compilation options used to compile this pattern.

Specified by:

getOptions in interface Pattern

Returns:

The compilation options used to compile the pattern.