Package sunlabs.brazil.util

Class Glob

  • public class Glob
extends java.lang.Object
    Glob-style string matching and substring extraction. Glob was implemented by translating the glob package for tcl8.0.
    • "*" matches 0 or more characters
    • "?" matches a single character
    • "[...]" matches a set and/or range of characters
    • "\" following character is not special
    Each of the substrings matching (?, *, or [..]) are returned.
    Version:
    2.16
    Author:
    Colin Stevens (colin.stevens@sun.com)

    • Method Summary

      All Methods Static Methods Concrete Methods 
      Modifier and Type Method Description
      static boolean match​(java.lang.String pattern, java.lang.String string)
      Match a string against a pattern.
      static boolean match​(java.lang.String pattern, java.lang.String string, java.lang.String[] substr)
      Match a string against a pattern, and return sub-matches.

      • Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

    • Method Detail

      • match

        public static boolean match​(java.lang.String pattern,
                            java.lang.String string)
        Match a string against a pattern.
        Parameters:
        pattern - Glob pattern. Nothing matches if pattern==null.
        string - String to match against pattern.
        Returns:
        true if the string matched the pattern, false otherwise.

      • match

        public static boolean match​(java.lang.String pattern,
                            java.lang.String string,
                            java.lang.String[] substr)
        Match a string against a pattern, and return sub-matches.

        The caller can provide an array of strings that will be filled in with the substrings of string that matched the glob meta-characters in pattern. The array of strings may be partially modified even if the string did not match the glob pattern. The array may contain more elements than glob meta-characters, in which case those extra elements will not be modified; the array may also contain fewer elements or even be null, to ignore some or all of the glob meta-characters. In other words, the user can pass pretty much anything and this method defines errors out of existence.

        Parameters:
        pattern - Glob pattern.
        string - String to match against pattern.
        substr - Array of strings provided by the caller, to be filled in with the substrings that matched the glob meta-characters. May be null.
        Returns:
        true if the string matched the pattern, false otherwise.