net.sf.saxon.regex

Interface RegularExpression

All Known Implementing Classes:

ARegularExpression, JavaRegularExpression

public interface RegularExpression

This interface represents a compiled regular expression. There are different implementations for different regex engines

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
RegexIterator	analyze(UnicodeString input) Use this regular expression to analyze an input string, in support of the XSLT analyze-string instruction.
boolean	containsMatch(UnicodeString input) Determine whether the regular expression contains a match of a given string
java.lang.String	getFlags() Get the flags used at the time the regular expression was compiled.
boolean	isPlatformNative() Ask whether the regular expression is using platform-native syntax (Java or .NET), or XPath syntax
boolean	matches(UnicodeString input) Determine whether the regular expression matches a given string in its entirety
UnicodeString	replace(UnicodeString input, UnicodeString replacement) Replace all substrings of a supplied input string that match the regular expression with a replacement string.
UnicodeString	replaceWith(UnicodeString input, java.util.function.Function<UnicodeString,UnicodeString> replacement) Replace all substrings of a supplied input string that match the regular expression with a replacement string.
AtomicIterator	tokenize(UnicodeString input) Use this regular expression to tokenize an input string.

Method Detail

matches

boolean matches(UnicodeString input)

Determine whether the regular expression matches a given string in its entirety

Parameters:

input - the string to match

Returns:

true if the string matches, false otherwise

containsMatch

boolean containsMatch(UnicodeString input)

Determine whether the regular expression contains a match of a given string

Parameters:

input - the string to match

Returns:

true if the string matches, false otherwise

tokenize

AtomicIterator tokenize(UnicodeString input)

Use this regular expression to tokenize an input string.

Parameters:

input - the string to be tokenized

Returns:

a SequenceIterator containing the resulting tokens, as objects of type StringValue

analyze

RegexIterator analyze(UnicodeString input)

Use this regular expression to analyze an input string, in support of the XSLT analyze-string instruction. The resulting RegexIterator provides both the matching and non-matching substrings, and allows them to be distinguished. It also provides access to matched subgroups.

Parameters:

input - the character string to be analyzed using the regular expression

Returns:

an iterator over matched and unmatched substrings

replace

UnicodeString replace(UnicodeString input,
                      UnicodeString replacement)
               throws XPathException

Replace all substrings of a supplied input string that match the regular expression with a replacement string.

Parameters:

input - the input string on which replacements are to be performed

replacement - the replacement string in the format of the XPath replace() function

Returns:

the result of performing the replacement

Throws:

XPathException - if the replacement string is invalid

replaceWith

UnicodeString replaceWith(UnicodeString input,
                          java.util.function.Function<UnicodeString,UnicodeString> replacement)
                   throws XPathException

Replace all substrings of a supplied input string that match the regular expression with a replacement string.

Parameters:

input - the input string on which replacements are to be performed

replacement - a function that is called once for each matching substring, and that returns a replacement for that substring

Returns:

the result of performing the replacement

Throws:

XPathException - if the replacement string is invalid

getFlags

java.lang.String getFlags()

Get the flags used at the time the regular expression was compiled.

Returns:

a string containing the flags

isPlatformNative

boolean isPlatformNative()

Ask whether the regular expression is using platform-native syntax (Java or .NET), or XPath syntax

Returns:

true if using platform-native syntax