1 // Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
3 // found in the LICENSE file.
5 #ifndef BASE_I18N_BREAK_ITERATOR_H_
6 #define BASE_I18N_BREAK_ITERATOR_H_
8 #include "base/basictypes.h"
9 #include "base/i18n/base_i18n_export.h"
10 #include "base/strings/string16.h"
11 #include "base/strings/string_piece.h"
13 // The BreakIterator class iterates through the words, word breaks, and
14 // line breaks in a UTF-16 string.
16 // It provides several modes, BREAK_WORD, BREAK_LINE, and BREAK_NEWLINE,
17 // which modify how characters are aggregated into the returned string.
19 // Under BREAK_WORD mode, once a word is encountered any non-word
20 // characters are not included in the returned string (e.g. in the
21 // UTF-16 equivalent of the string " foo bar! ", the word breaks are at
22 // the periods in ". .foo. .bar.!. .").
23 // Note that Chinese/Japanese/Thai do not use spaces between words so that
24 // boundaries can fall in the middle of a continuous run of non-space /
25 // non-punctuation characters.
27 // Under BREAK_LINE mode, once a line breaking opportunity is encountered,
28 // any non-word characters are included in the returned string, breaking
29 // only when a space-equivalent character or a line breaking opportunity
30 // is encountered (e.g. in the UTF16-equivalent of the string " foo bar! ",
31 // the breaks are at the periods in ". .foo .bar! .").
33 // Note that lines can be broken at any character/syllable/grapheme cluster
34 // boundary in Chinese/Japanese/Korean and at word boundaries in Thai
35 // (Thai does not use spaces between words). Therefore, this is NOT the same
36 // as breaking only at space-equivalent characters where its former
37 // name (BREAK_SPACE) implied.
39 // Under BREAK_NEWLINE mode, all characters are included in the returned
40 // string, breaking only when a newline-equivalent character is encountered
41 // (eg. in the UTF-16 equivalent of the string "foo\nbar!\n\n", the line
42 // breaks are at the periods in ".foo\n.bar\n.\n.").
44 // To extract the words from a string, move a BREAK_WORD BreakIterator
45 // through the string and test whether IsWord() is true. E.g.,
46 // BreakIterator iter(str, BreakIterator::BREAK_WORD);
49 // while (iter.Advance()) {
50 // if (iter.IsWord()) {
51 // // Region [iter.prev(), iter.pos()) contains a word.
52 // VLOG(1) << "word: " << iter.GetString();
59 class BASE_I18N_EXPORT BreakIterator
{
64 // TODO(jshin): Remove this after reviewing call sites.
65 // If call sites really need break only on space-like characters
66 // implement it separately.
67 BREAK_SPACE
= BREAK_LINE
,
70 // But don't remove this one!
74 // Requires |str| to live as long as the BreakIterator does.
75 BreakIterator(const StringPiece16
& str
, BreakType break_type
);
76 // Make a rule-based iterator. BreakType == RULE_BASED is implied.
77 // TODO(andrewhayden): This signature could easily be misinterpreted as
78 // "(const string16& str, const string16& locale)". We should do something
80 BreakIterator(const StringPiece16
& str
, const string16
& rules
);
83 // Init() must be called before any of the iterators are valid.
84 // Returns false if ICU failed to initialize.
87 // Advance to the next break. Returns false if we've run past the end of
88 // the string. (Note that the very last "break" is after the final
89 // character in the string, and when we advance to that position it's the
90 // last time Advance() returns true.)
93 // Updates the text used by the iterator, resetting the iterator as if
94 // if Init() had been called again. Any old state is lost. Returns true
95 // unless there is an error setting the text.
96 bool SetText(const base::char16
* text
, const size_t length
);
98 // Under BREAK_WORD mode, returns true if the break we just hit is the
99 // end of a word. (Otherwise, the break iterator just skipped over e.g.
100 // whitespace or punctuation.) Under BREAK_LINE and BREAK_NEWLINE modes,
101 // this distinction doesn't apply and it always returns false.
104 // Under BREAK_WORD mode, returns true if |position| is at the end of word or
105 // at the start of word. It always returns false under BREAK_LINE and
106 // BREAK_NEWLINE modes.
107 bool IsEndOfWord(size_t position
) const;
108 bool IsStartOfWord(size_t position
) const;
110 // Under BREAK_CHARACTER mode, returns whether |position| is a Unicode
111 // grapheme boundary.
112 bool IsGraphemeBoundary(size_t position
) const;
114 // Returns the string between prev() and pos().
115 // Advance() must have been called successfully at least once for pos() to
116 // have advanced to somewhere useful.
117 string16
GetString() const;
119 StringPiece16
GetStringPiece() const;
121 // Returns the value of pos() returned before Advance() was last called.
122 size_t prev() const { return prev_
; }
124 // Returns the current break position within the string,
125 // or BreakIterator::npos when done.
126 size_t pos() const { return pos_
; }
129 // ICU iterator, avoiding ICU ubrk.h dependence.
130 // This is actually an ICU UBreakiterator* type, which turns out to be
131 // a typedef for a void* in the ICU headers. Using void* directly prevents
132 // callers from needing access to the ICU public headers directory.
135 // The string we're iterating over. Can be changed with SetText(...)
136 StringPiece16 string_
;
138 // Rules for our iterator. Mutually exclusive with break_type_.
139 const string16 rules_
;
141 // The breaking style (word/space/newline). Mutually exclusive with rules_
142 BreakType break_type_
;
144 // Previous and current iterator positions.
147 DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(BreakIterator
);
153 #endif // BASE_I18N_BREAK_ITERATOR_H_