/*** * matchResultExample.java,v 1.4 1997/06/23 11:10:34 dfs Exp * * This is a test program demonstrating the methods of the OROMatcher * MatchResult class. * * Copyright 1997 ORO, Inc. All rights reserved. ***/ import com.oroinc.text.regex.*; public final class matchResultExample { /*** * Takes a regular expression and string as input and reports all the * pattern matches in the string. *

* @param args[] The array of arguments to the program. The first * argument should be a Perl5 regular expression, and the second * should be an input string. ***/ public static final void main(String args[]) { int groups; PatternMatcher matcher; PatternCompiler compiler; Pattern pattern = null; PatternMatcherInput input; MatchResult result; // Must have at least two arguments, else exit. if(args.length < 2) { System.err.println("Usage: matchResult pattern input"); System.exit(1); } // Create Perl5Compiler and Perl5Matcher instances. compiler = new Perl5Compiler(); matcher = new Perl5Matcher(); // Attempt to compile the pattern. If the pattern is not valid, // report the error and exit. try { pattern = compiler.compile(args[0]); } catch(MalformedPatternException e) { System.err.println("Bad pattern."); System.err.println(e.getMessage()); System.exit(1); } // Create a PatternMatcherInput instance to keep track of the position // where the last match finished, so that the next match search will // start from there. You always create a PatternMatcherInput instance // when you want to search a string for all of the matches it contains, // and not just the first one. input = new PatternMatcherInput(args[1]); // Loop until there are no more matches left. while(matcher.contains(input, pattern)) { // Since we're still in the loop, fetch match that was found. result = matcher.getMatch(); // Perform whatever processing on the result you want. // Here we just print out all its elements to show how the // MatchResult methods are used. // The toString() method is provided as a convenience method. // It returns the entire match. The following are all equivalent: // System.out.println("Match: " + result); // System.out.println("Match: " + result.toString()); // System.out.println("Match: " + result.group(0)); System.out.println("Match: " + result.toString()); // Print the length of the match. The length() method is another // convenience method. The lengths of subgroups can be obtained // by first retrieving the subgroup and then calling the string's // length() method. System.out.println("Length: " + result.length()); // Retrieve the number of matched groups. A group corresponds to // a parenthesized set in a pattern. groups = result.groups(); System.out.println("Groups: " + groups); // Print the offset into the input of the beginning and end of the // match. The beinOffset() and endOffset() methods return the // offsets of a group relative to the beginning of the input. The // begin() and end() methods return the offsets of a group relative // the to the beginning of a match. System.out.println("Begin offset: " + result.beginOffset(0)); System.out.println("End offset: " + result.endOffset(0)); System.out.println("Groups: "); // Print the contents of each matched subgroup along with their // offsets relative to the beginning of the entire match. // Start at 1 because we just printed out group 0 for(int group = 1; group < groups; group++) { System.out.println(group + ": " + result.group(group)); System.out.println("Begin: " + result.begin(group)); System.out.println("End: " + result.end(group)); } } } }