com.acsinet_solutions.util.regexp
Class RegexpCharFilter

java.lang.Object
  com.acsinet_solutions.util.regexp.RegexpCharFilter

All Implemented Interfaces:

CharFilter

public final class RegexpCharFilter
extends java.lang.Object
implements CharFilter

A regexp based character filter. Uses internally a regular expression filter. This class synchronizes itself to be thread-safe

Author:

Santiago Arriaga - santiago.arriaga@acsinet-solutions.com

Constructor Summary

RegexpCharFilter(java.lang.String filteredChars, boolean trimSpaces)

Method Summary

java.lang.String	filter(java.lang.String str) Filter the given input string, and return the string filtered.
static RegexpCharFilter	getFilter(java.lang.String filteredChars, boolean trimSpaces) Create a filter, and wrap checked SyntaxException in a runtime exception.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

RegexpCharFilter

public RegexpCharFilter(java.lang.String filteredChars,
                        boolean trimSpaces)
                 throws SyntaxException

Parameters:

filteredChars, - the chars to be filtered, hyphens or commas should be in the end or escaped with a backslash ( example: \- ).

trimSpaces, - convenience flag that trims all spaces. Similar to ( \s ) in the filteredChars argument.

Throws:

SyntaxException

Method Detail

getFilter

public static RegexpCharFilter getFilter(java.lang.String filteredChars,
                                         boolean trimSpaces)

Create a filter, and wrap checked SyntaxException in a runtime exception.

filter

public final java.lang.String filter(java.lang.String str)

Filter the given input string, and return the string filtered.

Specified by:

filter in interface CharFilter

Parameters:

str - A not-null String

Returns:

A not-null filtered String