wt.load
Class wtStringTokenizer

java.lang.Object
  wt.load.wtStringTokenizer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Enumeration

public class wtStringTokenizer

extends Object

implements Enumeration

The string tokenizer class allows an application to break a string into tokens. The tokenization method is much simpler than the one used by the StreamTokenizer class. The StringTokenizer methods do not distinguish among identifiers, numbers, and quoted strings, nor do they recognize and skip comments.

The set of delimiters (the characters that separate tokens) may be specified either at creation time or on a per-token basis.

An instance of StringTokenizer behaves in one of two ways, depending on whether it was created with the returnTokens flag having the value true or false:

• If the flag is false, delimiter characters serve to separate tokens. A token is a maximal sequence of consecutive characters that are not delimiters.
• If the flag is true, delimiter characters are considered to be tokens. A token is either one delimiter character, or a maximal sequence of consecutive characters that are not delimiters.

The following is one example of the use of the tokenizer. The code:

     StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer("this is a test");
     while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
         println(st.nextToken());
     }
 

prints the following output:

     this
     is
     a
     test
 

Supported API: false

Since:

JDK1.0

See Also:

StreamTokenizer

Field Summary

private int	currentPosition
private String	delimiters
private int	maxPosition
private boolean	retTokens
private String	str

Constructor Summary

wtStringTokenizer(String str)
Constructs a string tokenizer for the specified string.

wtStringTokenizer(String str, String delim)
Constructs a string tokenizer for the specified string.

wtStringTokenizer(String str, String delim, boolean returnTokens)
Constructs a string tokenizer for the specified string.

Method Summary

int	countTokens() Calculates the number of times that this tokenizer's nextToken method can be called before it generates an exception.
boolean	hasMoreElements() Returns the same value as the hasMoreTokens method.
boolean	hasMoreTokens() Tests if there are more tokens available from this tokenizer's string.
Object	nextElement() Returns the same value as the nextToken method, except that its declared return value is Object rather than String.
String	nextToken() Returns the next token from this string tokenizer.
String	nextToken(String delim) Returns the next token in this string tokenizer's string.
private void	skipDelimiter() Skips delimiters.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

currentPosition

private int currentPosition

maxPosition

private int maxPosition

str

private String str

delimiters

private String delimiters

retTokens

private boolean retTokens

Constructor Detail

wtStringTokenizer

public wtStringTokenizer(String str,
                         String delim,
                         boolean returnTokens)

Constructs a string tokenizer for the specified string. The characters in the delim argument are the delimiters for separating tokens.

If the returnTokens flag is true, then the delimiter characters are also returned as tokens. Each delimiter is returned as a string of length one. If the flag is false, the delimiter characters are skipped and only serve as separators between tokens.

Parameters:

str - a string to be parsed.

delim - the delimiters.

returnTokens - flag indicating whether to return the delimiters as tokens.

Supported API: false

Since:

JDK1.0

wtStringTokenizer

public wtStringTokenizer(String str,
                         String delim)

Constructs a string tokenizer for the specified string. The characters in the delim argument are the delimiters for separating tokens.

Parameters:

str - a string to be parsed.

delim - the delimiters.

Supported API: false

Since:

JDK1.0

wtStringTokenizer

public wtStringTokenizer(String str)

Constructs a string tokenizer for the specified string. The tokenizer uses the default delimiter set, which is "\t\n\r": the space character, the tab character, the newline character, and the carriage-return character.

Parameters:

str - a string to be parsed.

Since:

JDK1.0

Supported API: false

Method Detail

skipDelimiter

private void skipDelimiter()

Skips delimiters.

hasMoreTokens

public boolean hasMoreTokens()

Tests if there are more tokens available from this tokenizer's string.

Returns:

true if there are more tokens available from this tokenizer's string; false otherwise.

Since:

JDK1.0

Supported API: false

nextToken

public String nextToken()

Returns the next token from this string tokenizer.

Returns:

the next token from this string tokenizer.

Throws:

NoSuchElementException - if there are no more tokens in this tokenizer's string.

Since:

JDK1.0

Supported API: false

nextToken

public String nextToken(String delim)

Returns the next token in this string tokenizer's string. The new delimiter set remains the default after this call.

Parameters:

delim - the new delimiters.

Returns:

the next token, after switching to the new delimiter set.

Throws:

NoSuchElementException - if there are no more tokens in this tokenizer's string.

Since:

JDK1.0

Supported API: false

hasMoreElements

public boolean hasMoreElements()

Returns the same value as the hasMoreTokens method. It exists so that this class can implement the Enumeration interface.

Specified by:

hasMoreElements in interface Enumeration

Returns:

true if there are more tokens; false otherwise.

Since:

JDK1.0

Supported API: false

See Also:

Enumeration, StringTokenizer.hasMoreTokens()

nextElement

public Object nextElement()

Returns the same value as the nextToken method, except that its declared return value is Object rather than String. It exists so that this class can implement the Enumeration interface.

Specified by:

nextElement in interface Enumeration

Returns:

the next token in the string.

Throws:

NoSuchElementException - if there are no more tokens in this tokenizer's string.

Since:

JDK1.0

Supported API: false

See Also:

Enumeration, StringTokenizer.nextToken()

countTokens

public int countTokens()

Calculates the number of times that this tokenizer's nextToken method can be called before it generates an exception.

Returns:

the number of tokens remaining in the string using the current delimiter set.

Since:

JDK1.0

Supported API: false

See Also:

StringTokenizer.nextToken()