co.uk.hjcs.canyon.parsing
Class DelimitedFieldDefinition

java.lang.Object
  co.uk.hjcs.canyon.parsing.DelimitedFieldDefinition

All Implemented Interfaces:

FieldDefinition, java.lang.Comparable

public class DelimitedFieldDefinition
extends java.lang.Object
implements FieldDefinition

Represents a field in a delimited file. The delimiter can be any Java Regex expression. This means your delimiter can be quite complicated or very simple (as in CSV).

Author:

HJC Solutions Ltd (http://canyon.hjcsolutions.co.uk) ${tags}

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

CSV_DELIMITER

Constructor Summary

DelimitedFieldDefinition(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String delimiter, int position)

Method Summary

int	compareTo(java.lang.Object object)
java.lang.String	getDelimiter()
java.lang.String	getName()
java.util.regex.Pattern	getPattern() The pattern that represents the delimiter used to break up a line of text
int	getPosition()
java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

CSV_DELIMITER

public static final java.lang.String CSV_DELIMITER

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

DelimitedFieldDefinition

public DelimitedFieldDefinition(java.lang.String name,
                                java.lang.String delimiter,
                                int position)

Method Detail

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

Specified by:

getName in interface FieldDefinition

getDelimiter

public java.lang.String getDelimiter()

getPosition

public int getPosition()

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

getPattern

public java.util.regex.Pattern getPattern()

The pattern that represents the delimiter used to break up a line of text

Returns:

- the delimiter pattern

compareTo

public int compareTo(java.lang.Object object)

Specified by:

compareTo in interface java.lang.Comparable