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17 /* Generated By:JavaCC: Do not edit this line. CharStream.java Version 3.0 */
19 namespace Lucene
.Net
.Analysis
.Standard
21 public interface CharStream
24 /// <summary> Returns the next character from the selected input. The method
25 /// of selecting the input is the responsibility of the class
26 /// implementing this interface. Can throw any java.io.IOException.
30 /// <summary> Returns the column position of the character last read.</summary>
33 /// <seealso cref="#getEndColumn">
37 /// <summary> Returns the line number of the character last read.</summary>
40 /// <seealso cref="#getEndLine">
44 /// <summary> Returns the column number of the last character for current token (being
45 /// matched after the last call to BeginTOken).
49 /// <summary> Returns the line number of the last character for current token (being
50 /// matched after the last call to BeginTOken).
54 /// <summary> Returns the column number of the first character for current token (being
55 /// matched after the last call to BeginTOken).
59 /// <summary> Returns the line number of the first character for current token (being
60 /// matched after the last call to BeginTOken).
64 /// <summary> Backs up the input stream by amount steps. Lexer calls this method if it
65 /// had already read some characters, but could not use them to match a
66 /// (longer) token. So, they will be used again as the prefix of the next
67 /// token and it is the implemetation's responsibility to do this right.
69 void Backup(int amount
);
71 /// <summary> Returns the next character that marks the beginning of the next token.
72 /// All characters must remain in the buffer between two successive calls
73 /// to this method to implement backup correctly.
77 /// <summary> Returns a string made up of characters from the marked token beginning
78 /// to the current buffer position. Implementations have the choice of returning
79 /// anything that they want to. For example, for efficiency, one might decide
80 /// to just return null, which is a valid implementation.
82 System
.String
GetImage();
84 /// <summary> Returns an array of characters that make up the suffix of length 'len' for
85 /// the currently matched token. This is used to build up the matched string
86 /// for use in actions in the case of MORE. A simple and inefficient
87 /// implementation of this is as follows :
90 /// String t = GetImage();
91 /// return t.substring(t.length() - len, t.length()).toCharArray();
94 char[] GetSuffix(int len
);
96 /// <summary> The lexer calls this function to indicate that it is done with the stream
97 /// and hence implementations can free any resources held by this class.
98 /// Again, the body of this function can be just empty and it will not
99 /// affect the lexer's operation.