public class TextTokenizer extends Object
The tokenizer knows about four different character classes: regular word characters, whitespace characters, sentence delimiters and separator characters. Tokens can consist of
The character classes are completely user definable. By default, whitespace characters are the Unicode whitespace characters. All other characters are word characters. The two separator classes are empty by default. The different classes may have non-empty intersections. When determining the class of a character, the user defined classes are considered in the following order: end-of-sentence delimiter before other separators before whitespace before word characters. That is, if a character is defined to be both a separator and a whitespace character, it will be considered to be a separator.
By default, the tokenizer will return all tokens, including whitespace. That is, appending the sequence of tokens will recover the original input text. This behavior can be changed so that whitespace and/or separator tokens are skipped.
A tokenizer provides a standard iterator interface similar to
StringTokenizer
. The validity of the iterator can be queried
with hasNext()
, and the next token can be queried with nextToken()
.
In addition, getNextTokenType()
returns the type of the token as an integer. NB
that you need to call getNextTokenType()
before calling nextToken()
,
since calling nextToken()
will advance the iterator.
Modifier and Type | Field and Description |
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static int |
EOS
Sentence delimiter character/word type.
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static int |
SEP
Separator character/word type.
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static int |
WCH
Word character/word type.
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static int |
WSP
Whitespace character/word type.
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Constructor and Description |
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TextTokenizer(CharArrayString string)
Construct a tokenizer from a CharArrayString.
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TextTokenizer(String string)
Construct a tokenizer from a Java string.
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Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
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void |
addSeparators(String chars)
Add to the set of separator characters.
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void |
addToEndOfSentenceChars(String chars)
Add to the set of sentence delimiters.
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void |
addWhitespaceChars(String chars)
Add to the set of whitespace characters.
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void |
addWordChars(String chars)
Add to the set of word characters.
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int |
getCharType(char c)
Get the type of an individual character.
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int |
getNextTokenType()
Get the type of the token returned by the next call to
nextToken() . |
boolean |
hasNext() |
String |
nextToken() |
void |
setEndOfSentenceChars(String chars)
Set the set of sentence delimiters.
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void |
setSeparators(String chars)
Set the set of separator characters.
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void |
setShowSeparators(boolean b)
Set the flag for showing separator tokens.
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void |
setShowWhitespace(boolean b)
Set the flag for showing whitespace tokens.
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void |
setWhitespaceChars(String chars)
Set the set of whitespace characters (in addition to the Unicode whitespace chars).
|
void |
setWordChars(String chars)
Set the set of word characters.
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public static final int EOS
public static final int SEP
public static final int WSP
public static final int WCH
public TextTokenizer(CharArrayString string)
string
- The string to tokenize.public TextTokenizer(String string)
string
- -public void setShowWhitespace(boolean b)
b
- -public void setShowSeparators(boolean b)
b
- -public void setEndOfSentenceChars(String chars)
chars
- -public void addToEndOfSentenceChars(String chars)
chars
- -public void setSeparators(String chars)
chars
- -public void addSeparators(String chars)
chars
- -public void setWhitespaceChars(String chars)
chars
- -public void addWhitespaceChars(String chars)
chars
- -public void setWordChars(String chars)
chars
- -public void addWordChars(String chars)
chars
- -public int getNextTokenType()
nextToken()
.-1
if there is no next token.public boolean hasNext()
true
iff there is a next token.public String nextToken()
public int getCharType(char c)
c
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