net.sf.saxon.regex

Interface RegularExpression

public interface RegularExpression extends Serializable

This interface represents a compiled regular expression
Method Summary
RegexIteratoranalyze(CharSequence input)
Use this regular expression to analyze an input string, in support of the XSLT analyze-string instruction.
booleancontainsMatch(CharSequence input)
Determine whether the regular expression contains a match of a given string
booleanmatches(CharSequence input)
Determine whether the regular expression match a given string in its entirety
CharSequencereplace(CharSequence input, CharSequence replacement)
Replace all substrings of a supplied input string that match the regular expression with a replacement string.
SequenceIteratortokenize(CharSequence input)
Use this regular expression to tokenize an input string.

Method Detail

analyze

public RegexIterator analyze(CharSequence input)
Use this regular expression to analyze an input string, in support of the XSLT analyze-string instruction. The resulting RegexIterator provides both the matching and non-matching substrings, and allows them to be distinguished. It also provides access to matched subgroups.

containsMatch

public boolean containsMatch(CharSequence input)
Determine whether the regular expression contains a match of a given string

Parameters: input the string to match

Returns: true if the string matches, false otherwise

matches

public boolean matches(CharSequence input)
Determine whether the regular expression match a given string in its entirety

Parameters: input the string to match

Returns: true if the string matches, false otherwise

replace

public CharSequence replace(CharSequence input, CharSequence replacement)
Replace all substrings of a supplied input string that match the regular expression with a replacement string.

Parameters: input the input string on which replacements are to be performed replacement the replacement string in the format of the XPath replace() function

Returns: the result of performing the replacement

Throws: XPathException if the replacement string is invalid

tokenize

public SequenceIterator tokenize(CharSequence input)
Use this regular expression to tokenize an input string.

Parameters: input the string to be tokenized

Returns: a SequenceIterator containing the resulting tokens, as objects of type StringValue