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1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: tokenzr.h
3 // Purpose: interface of wxStringTokenizer
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
5 // RCS-ID: $Id$
6 // Licence: wxWindows license
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8
9 /**
10 The behaviour of wxStringTokenizer is governed by the
11 wxStringTokenizer::wxStringTokenizer() or wxStringTokenizer::SetString()
12 with the parameter @e mode, which may be one of the following:
13 */
14 enum wxStringTokenizerMode
15 {
16 wxTOKEN_INVALID = -1, ///< Invalid tokenizer mode.
17
18 /**
19 Default behaviour: wxStringTokenizer will behave in the same way as
20 @c strtok() (::wxTOKEN_STRTOK) if the delimiters string only contains
21 white space characters but, unlike the standard function, it will
22 behave like ::wxTOKEN_RET_EMPTY, returning empty tokens if this is not
23 the case. This is helpful for parsing strictly formatted data where
24 the number of fields is fixed but some of them may be empty (i.e.
25 @c TAB or comma delimited text files).
26 */
27 wxTOKEN_DEFAULT,
28
29 /**
30 In this mode, the empty tokens in the middle of the string will be returned,
31 i.e. @c "a::b:" will be tokenized in three tokens @c 'a', @c '' and @c 'b'.
32 Notice that all trailing delimiters are ignored in this mode, not just the last one,
33 i.e. a string @c "a::b::" would still result in the same set of tokens.
34 */
35 wxTOKEN_RET_EMPTY,
36
37 /**
38 In this mode, empty trailing tokens (including the one after the last delimiter
39 character) will be returned as well. The string @c "a::b:" will be tokenized in
40 four tokens: the already mentioned ones and another empty one as the last one
41 and a string @c "a::b::" will have five tokens.
42 */
43 wxTOKEN_RET_EMPTY_ALL,
44
45 /**
46 In this mode, the delimiter character after the end of the current token (there
47 may be none if this is the last token) is returned appended to the token.
48 Otherwise, it is the same mode as ::wxTOKEN_RET_EMPTY. Notice that there is no
49 mode like this one but behaving like ::wxTOKEN_RET_EMPTY_ALL instead of
50 ::wxTOKEN_RET_EMPTY, use ::wxTOKEN_RET_EMPTY_ALL and
51 wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter() to emulate it.
52 */
53 wxTOKEN_RET_DELIMS,
54
55 /**
56 In this mode the class behaves exactly like the standard @c strtok() function:
57 the empty tokens are never returned.
58 */
59 wxTOKEN_STRTOK
60 };
61
62 /**
63 @class wxStringTokenizer
64
65 wxStringTokenizer helps you to break a string up into a number of tokens.
66 It replaces the standard C function @c strtok() and also extends it in a
67 number of ways.
68
69 To use this class, you should create a wxStringTokenizer object, give it the
70 string to tokenize and also the delimiters which separate tokens in the string
71 (by default, white space characters will be used).
72
73 Then wxStringTokenizer::GetNextToken() may be called repeatedly until
74 wxStringTokenizer::HasMoreTokens() returns @false.
75
76 For example:
77
78 @code
79 wxStringTokenizer tokenizer("first:second:third:fourth", ":");
80 while ( tokenizer.HasMoreTokens() )
81 {
82 wxString token = tokenizer.GetNextToken();
83
84 // process token here
85 }
86 @endcode
87
88 @library{wxbase}
89 @category{data}
90
91 @see ::wxStringTokenize()
92 */
93 class wxStringTokenizer : public wxObject
94 {
95 public:
96 /**
97 Default constructor. You must call SetString() before calling any other
98 methods.
99 */
100 wxStringTokenizer();
101 /**
102 Constructor. Pass the string to tokenize, a string containing
103 delimiters, and the @a mode specifying how the string should be
104 tokenized.
105
106 @see SetString()
107 */
108 wxStringTokenizer(const wxString& str,
109 const wxString& delims = " \t\r\n",
110 wxStringTokenizerMode mode = wxTOKEN_DEFAULT);
111
112 /**
113 Returns the number of tokens remaining in the input string. The number
114 of tokens returned by this function is decremented each time
115 GetNextToken() is called and when it reaches 0, HasMoreTokens()
116 returns @false.
117 */
118 size_t CountTokens() const;
119
120 /**
121 Returns the delimiter which ended scan for the last token returned by
122 GetNextToken() or @c NUL if there had been no calls to this function
123 yet or if it returned the trailing empty token in
124 ::wxTOKEN_RET_EMPTY_ALL mode.
125
126 @since 2.7.0
127 */
128 wxChar GetLastDelimiter() const;
129
130 /**
131 Returns the next token or empty string if the end of string was reached.
132 */
133 wxString GetNextToken();
134
135 /**
136 Returns the current position (i.e. one index after the last returned
137 token or 0 if GetNextToken() has never been called) in the original
138 string.
139 */
140 size_t GetPosition() const;
141
142 /**
143 Returns the part of the starting string without all token already extracted.
144 */
145 wxString GetString() const;
146
147 /**
148 Returns @true if the tokenizer has further tokens, @false if none are left.
149 */
150 bool HasMoreTokens() const;
151
152 /**
153 Initializes the tokenizer. Pass the string to tokenize, a string
154 containing delimiters, and the @a mode specifying how the string
155 should be tokenized.
156 */
157 void SetString(const wxString& to_tokenize,
158 const wxString& delims = " \t\r\n",
159 wxStringTokenizerMode mode = wxTOKEN_DEFAULT);
160 };
161
162
163 /** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_string */
164 //@{
165
166 /**
167 This is a convenience function wrapping wxStringTokenizer which simply
168 returns all tokens found in the given @a str as an array.
169
170 Please see wxStringTokenizer::wxStringTokenizer for the description
171 of the other parameters.
172
173 @return The array with the parsed tokens.
174
175 @header{wx/string.h}
176 */
177 wxArrayString
178 wxStringTokenize(const wxString& str,
179 const wxString& delims = wxDEFAULT_DELIMITERS,
180 wxStringTokenizerMode mode = wxTOKEN_DEFAULT);
181
182 //@}