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UnicodeReplacer Class Reference

UnicodeReplacer defines a protocol for objects that replace a range of characters in a Replaceable string with output text. More...

#include <unirepl.h>


Public Member Functions

virtual int32_t replace (Replaceable &text, int32_t start, int32_t limit, int32_t &cursor)=0
 Replace characters in 'text' from 'start' to 'limit' with the output text of this object.
virtual UnicodeStringtoReplacerPattern (UnicodeString &result, UBool escapeUnprintable) const =0
 Returns a string representation of this replacer.


Detailed Description

UnicodeReplacer defines a protocol for objects that replace a range of characters in a Replaceable string with output text.

The replacement is done via the Replaceable API so as to preserve out-of-band data.

This is a mixin class.

Author:
Alan Liu


Member Function Documentation

virtual int32_t UnicodeReplacer::replace Replaceable text,
int32_t  start,
int32_t  limit,
int32_t &  cursor
[pure virtual]
 

Replace characters in 'text' from 'start' to 'limit' with the output text of this object.

Update the 'cursor' parameter to give the cursor position and return the length of the replacement text.

Parameters:
text the text to be matched
start inclusive start index of text to be replaced
limit exclusive end index of text to be replaced; must be greater than or equal to start
cursor output parameter for the cursor position. Not all replacer objects will update this, but in a complete tree of replacer objects, representing the entire output side of a transliteration rule, at least one must update it.
Returns:
the number of 16-bit code units in the text replacing the characters at offsets start..(limit-1) in text

virtual UnicodeString& UnicodeReplacer::toReplacerPattern UnicodeString result,
UBool  escapeUnprintable
const [pure virtual]
 

Returns a string representation of this replacer.

If the result of calling this function is passed to the appropriate parser, typically TransliteratorParser, it will produce another replacer that is equal to this one.

Parameters:
result the string to receive the pattern. Previous contents will be deleted.
escapeUnprintable if TRUE then convert unprintable character to their hex escape representations, \uxxxx or \Uxxxxxxxx. Unprintable characters are defined by Utility.isUnprintable().
Returns:
a reference to 'result'.


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