Fix the header to be included in wxStringTokenizer documentation.
[wxWidgets.git] / interface / wx / tokenzr.h
1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: tokenzr.h
3 // Purpose: interface of wxStringTokenizer
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
5 // RCS-ID: $Id$
6 // Licence: wxWindows licence
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 /// Default wxStringTokenizer delimiters are the usual white space characters.
63 #define wxDEFAULT_DELIMITERS " \t\r\n"
64
65 /**
66 @class wxStringTokenizer
67
68 wxStringTokenizer helps you to break a string up into a number of tokens.
69 It replaces the standard C function @c strtok() and also extends it in a
70 number of ways.
71
72 To use this class, you should create a wxStringTokenizer object, give it the
73 string to tokenize and also the delimiters which separate tokens in the string
74 (by default, white space characters will be used).
75
76 Then wxStringTokenizer::GetNextToken() may be called repeatedly until
77 wxStringTokenizer::HasMoreTokens() returns @false.
78
79 For example:
80
81 @code
82 wxStringTokenizer tokenizer("first:second:third:fourth", ":");
83 while ( tokenizer.HasMoreTokens() )
84 {
85 wxString token = tokenizer.GetNextToken();
86
87 // process token here
88 }
89 @endcode
90
91 @library{wxbase}
92 @category{data}
93
94 @see ::wxStringTokenize()
95 */
96 class wxStringTokenizer : public wxObject
97 {
98 public:
99 /**
100 Default constructor. You must call SetString() before calling any other
101 methods.
102 */
103 wxStringTokenizer();
104 /**
105 Constructor. Pass the string to tokenize, a string containing
106 delimiters, and the @a mode specifying how the string should be
107 tokenized.
108
109 @see SetString()
110 */
111 wxStringTokenizer(const wxString& str,
112 const wxString& delims = wxDEFAULT_DELIMITERS,
113 wxStringTokenizerMode mode = wxTOKEN_DEFAULT);
114
115 /**
116 Returns the number of tokens remaining in the input string. The number
117 of tokens returned by this function is decremented each time
118 GetNextToken() is called and when it reaches 0, HasMoreTokens()
119 returns @false.
120 */
121 size_t CountTokens() const;
122
123 /**
124 Returns the delimiter which ended scan for the last token returned by
125 GetNextToken() or @c NUL if there had been no calls to this function
126 yet or if it returned the trailing empty token in
127 ::wxTOKEN_RET_EMPTY_ALL mode.
128
129 @since 2.7.0
130 */
131 wxChar GetLastDelimiter() const;
132
133 /**
134 Returns the next token or empty string if the end of string was reached.
135 */
136 wxString GetNextToken();
137
138 /**
139 Returns the current position (i.e.\ one index after the last returned
140 token or 0 if GetNextToken() has never been called) in the original
141 string.
142 */
143 size_t GetPosition() const;
144
145 /**
146 Returns the part of the starting string without all token already extracted.
147 */
148 wxString GetString() const;
149
150 /**
151 Returns @true if the tokenizer has further tokens, @false if none are left.
152 */
153 bool HasMoreTokens() const;
154
155 /**
156 Initializes the tokenizer. Pass the string to tokenize, a string
157 containing delimiters, and the @a mode specifying how the string
158 should be tokenized.
159 */
160 void SetString(const wxString& str,
161 const wxString& delims = wxDEFAULT_DELIMITERS,
162 wxStringTokenizerMode mode = wxTOKEN_DEFAULT);
163 };
164
165
166 /** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_string */
167 //@{
168
169 /**
170 This is a convenience function wrapping wxStringTokenizer which simply
171 returns all tokens found in the given @a str as an array.
172
173 Please see wxStringTokenizer::wxStringTokenizer for the description
174 of the other parameters.
175
176 @return The array with the parsed tokens.
177
178 @header{wx/tokenzr.h}
179 */
180 wxArrayString
181 wxStringTokenize(const wxString& str,
182 const wxString& delims = wxDEFAULT_DELIMITERS,
183 wxStringTokenizerMode mode = wxTOKEN_DEFAULT);
184
185 //@}