Class AwkPattern

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    java.io.Serializable, Pattern

    public final class AwkPattern
    extends java.lang.Object
    implements Pattern, java.io.Serializable
    An implementation of the Pattern interface for Awk regular expressions. This class is compatible with the AwkCompiler and AwkMatcher classes. When an AwkCompiler instance compiles a regular expression pattern, it produces an AwkPattern instance containing internal data structures used by AwkMatcher to perform pattern matches. This class cannot be subclassed and cannot be directly instantiated by the programmer as it would not make sense. It is however serializable so that pre-compiled patterns may be saved to disk and re-read at a later time. AwkPattern instances should only be created through calls to an AwkCompiler instance's compile() methods
    Since:
    1.0
    Version:
    ,
    See Also:
    AwkCompiler, AwkMatcher, Serialized Form
    • Method Summary

      All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods 
      Modifier and Type Method Description
      int getOptions()
      This method returns an integer containing the compilation options used to compile this pattern.
      java.lang.String getPattern()
      This method returns the string representation of the pattern.
      • Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

        clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
    • Method Detail

      • getPattern

        public java.lang.String getPattern()
        This method returns the string representation of the pattern.

        Specified by:
        getPattern in interface Pattern
        Returns:
        The original string representation of the regular expression pattern.
      • getOptions

        public int getOptions()
        This method returns an integer containing the compilation options used to compile this pattern.

        Specified by:
        getOptions in interface Pattern
        Returns:
        The compilation options used to compile the pattern.