org.xwiki.velocity.tools
Class RegexTool

java.lang.Object
  org.xwiki.velocity.tools.RegexTool

public class RegexTool
extends Object

Velocity Tool offering various Regex-based APIs to make it easy to manipulate regular expressions from Velocity.

Since:

2.0RC2

Version:

$Id$

Nested Class Summary

class

RegexTool.RegexResult Result of a Regex search.

Constructor Summary

RegexTool()

Method Summary

Pattern	compile(String regex) Compiles a regular expression into a java Pattern object.
List<RegexTool.RegexResult>	find(String content, String regex)
String	quote(String s) Returns a literal pattern String for the specified String.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

RegexTool

public RegexTool()

Method Detail

find

public List<RegexTool.RegexResult> find(String content,
                                        String regex)

Parameters:

content - the content to parse

regex - the regex to look for in the passed content

Returns:

empty list if the passed regex doesn't match the content or several RegexTool.RegexResult objects containing the matched position and matched content for all capturing groups, the first group representing the whole . The first object is represents the entire pattern

compile

public Pattern compile(String regex)

Compiles a regular expression into a java Pattern object.

Parameters:

regex - the textual representation of the regular expression

Returns:

the Pattern object corresponding to the regular expression, or null if the expression is invalid

Since:

2.3M1

quote

public String quote(String s)

Returns a literal pattern String for the specified String.

This method produces a String that can be used to create a Pattern that would match the string s as if it were a literal pattern.

Metacharacters or escape sequences in the input sequence will be given no special meaning.

Parameters:

s - The string to be literalized

Returns:

A literal string replacement

Since:

2.4M2