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Interface com.oroinc.text.regex.Substitution

public interface Substitution

The Substitution interface provides a means for you to control how a substitution is performed when using the Util.substitute method. Two standard implementations are provided, StringSubstitution and Perl5Substitution . To achieve custom control over the behavior of substitutions, you can create your own implementations. A common use for customization is to make a substitution a function of a match.

Author:: Daniel F. Savarese
See Also:: Util, substitute, StringSubstitution, Perl5Substitution

appendSubstitution(StringBuffer, MatchResult, int, String, PatternMatcher, Pattern): Appends the substitution to a buffer containing the original input with substitutions applied for the pattern matches found so far.

appendSubstitution

 public abstract void appendSubstitution(StringBuffer appendBuffer,
                                         MatchResult match,
                                         int substitutionCount,
                                         String originalInput,
                                         PatternMatcher matcher,
                                         Pattern pattern)

Appends the substitution to a buffer containing the original input with substitutions applied for the pattern matches found so far. For maximum flexibility, the original input as well as the PatternMatcher and Pattern used to find the match are included as arguments. However, you will almost never find a need to use those arguments when creating your own Substitution implementations.

For performance reasons, rather than provide a getSubstition method that returns a String used by Util.substitute, we have opted to pass a StringBuffer argument from Util.substitute to which the Substitution must append data. The contract that an appendSubstitution implementation must abide by is that the appendBuffer may only be appended to. appendSubstitution() may not alter the appendBuffer in any way other than appending to it.

This method is invoked by Util.substitute every time it finds a match. After finding a match, the Util.substitute appends to the appendBuffer all of the original input occuring between the end of the last match and the beginning of the current match. Then it invokes appendSubstitution(), passing the appendBuffer, current match, and other information as arguments. The substitutionCount keeps track of how many substitutions have been performed so far by an invocation of Util.substitute. Its value starts at 1 when the first substitution is found and appendSubstitution is invoked for the first time. It will NEVER be zero or a negative value.

Parameters:: appendBuffer - The buffer containing the new string resulting from performing substitutions on the original input.; match - The current match causing a substitution to be made.; substitutionCount - The number of substitutions that have been performed so far by Util.substitute.; originalInput - The original input upon which the substitutions are being performed.; matcher - The PatternMatcher used to find the current match.; pattern - The Pattern used to find the current match.

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