PerCederberg.Grammatica.Runtime
Class REHandler

System.Object
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Direct Known Subclasses:

GrammaticaRE, SystemRE

internal abstract class REHandler

extends System.Object

The regular expression handler base class.

Match

public abstract int Match( ReaderBuffer buffer );

Checks if the start of the input stream matches this regular expression.

Parameters:

buffer - the input buffer to check

Returns:

the longest match found, or zero (0) if no match was found

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurred