org.apache.oro.text.regex

Class Perl5Pattern

java.lang.Object

org.apache.oro.text.regex.Perl5Pattern

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable, Pattern

public final class Perl5Pattern
extends java.lang.Object
implements Pattern, java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable

An implementation of the Pattern interface for Perl5 regular expressions. This class is compatible with the Perl5Compiler and Perl5Matcher classes. When a Perl5Compiler instance compiles a regular expression pattern, it produces a Perl5Pattern instance containing internal data structures used by Perl5Matcher to perform pattern matches. This class cannot be subclassed and cannot be directly instantiated by the programmer as it would not make sense. Perl5Pattern instances should only be created through calls to a Perl5Compiler instance's compile() methods. The class implements the Serializable interface so that instances may be pre-compiled and saved to disk if desired.

Since:

1.0

Version:

2.0.8

See Also:

Perl5Compiler, Perl5Matcher, Serialized Form

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and 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.