com.mckoi.database.regexbridge
Class JavaRegex
java.lang.Object
com.mckoi.database.regexbridge.JavaRegex
- All Implemented Interfaces:
- RegexLibrary
public class JavaRegex
- extends java.lang.Object
- implements RegexLibrary
A bridge to the internal Java regular expression library that was introduced
in Java 1.4. This bridge will only work if the regular expression API
is available in the class library. It is not available in 1.3 and 1.2.
- Author:
- Tobias Downer
Method Summary |
boolean |
regexMatch(java.lang.String regular_expression,
java.lang.String expression_ops,
java.lang.String value)
Matches a regular expression against a string value. |
IntegerVector |
regexSearch(Table table,
int column,
java.lang.String regular_expression,
java.lang.String expression_ops)
Performs a regular expression search on the given column of the table. |
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object |
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait |
JavaRegex
public JavaRegex()
regexMatch
public boolean regexMatch(java.lang.String regular_expression,
java.lang.String expression_ops,
java.lang.String value)
- Description copied from interface:
RegexLibrary
- Matches a regular expression against a string value. If the value is
a match against the expression then it returns true.
- Specified by:
regexMatch
in interface RegexLibrary
- Parameters:
regular_expression
- the expression to match (eg. "[0-9]+").expression_ops
- expression operator string that specifies various
flags. For example, "im" is like '/[expression]/im' in Perl.value
- the string to test.
regexSearch
public IntegerVector regexSearch(Table table,
int column,
java.lang.String regular_expression,
java.lang.String expression_ops)
- Description copied from interface:
RegexLibrary
- Performs a regular expression search on the given column of the table.
Returns an IntegerVector that contains the list of rows in the table that
matched the expression. Returns an empty list if the expression matched
no rows in the column.
- Specified by:
regexSearch
in interface RegexLibrary
- Parameters:
table
- the table to search for matching values.column
- the column of the table to search for matching values.regular_expression
- the expression to match (eg. "[0-9]+").expression_ops
- expression operator string that specifies various
flags. For example, "im" is like '/[expression]/im' in Perl.