Class StreamTokenizer

Method Details

• resetSyntax

  public void resetSyntax()

  Resets this tokenizer's syntax table so that all characters are "ordinary." See the ordinaryChar method for more information on a character being ordinary.

  See Also:

  • ordinaryChar(int)

• wordChars

  public void wordChars(int low, int hi)

  Specifies that all characters c in the range low <= c <= high are word constituents. A word token consists of a word constituent followed by zero or more word constituents or number constituents.

  Parameters:

  low - the low end of the range.

  hi - the high end of the range.

• whitespaceChars

  public void whitespaceChars(int low, int hi)

  Specifies that all characters c in the range low <= c <= high are white space characters. White space characters serve only to separate tokens in the input stream.

  Any other attribute settings for the characters in the specified range are cleared.

  Parameters:

  low - the low end of the range.

  hi - the high end of the range.

• ordinaryChars

  public void ordinaryChars(int low, int hi)

  Specifies that all characters c in the range low <= c <= high are "ordinary" in this tokenizer. See the ordinaryChar method for more information on a character being ordinary.

  Parameters:

  low - the low end of the range.

  hi - the high end of the range.

  See Also:

  • ordinaryChar(int)

• ordinaryChar

  public void ordinaryChar(int ch)

  Specifies that the character argument is "ordinary" in this tokenizer. It removes any special significance the character has as a comment character, word component, string delimiter, white space, or number character. When such a character is encountered by the parser, the parser treats it as a single-character token and sets ttype field to the character value.

  Making a line terminator character "ordinary" may interfere with the ability of a StreamTokenizer to count lines. The lineno method may no longer reflect the presence of such terminator characters in its line count.

  Parameters:

  ch - the character.

  See Also:

  • ttype

• commentChar

  public void commentChar(int ch)

  Specified that the character argument starts a single-line comment. All characters from the comment character to the end of the line are ignored by this stream tokenizer.

  Any other attribute settings for the specified character are cleared.

  Parameters:

  ch - the character.

• quoteChar

  public void quoteChar(int ch)

  Specifies that matching pairs of this character delimit string constants in this tokenizer.

  When the nextToken method encounters a string constant, the ttype field is set to the string delimiter and the sval field is set to the body of the string.

  If a string quote character is encountered, then a string is recognized, consisting of all characters after (but not including) the string quote character, up to (but not including) the next occurrence of that same string quote character, or a line terminator, or end of file. The usual escape sequences such as "\n" and "\t" are recognized and converted to single characters as the string is parsed.

  Any other attribute settings for the specified character are cleared.

  Parameters:

  ch - the character.

  See Also:

  • nextToken()
  • sval
  • ttype

• parseNumbers

  public void parseNumbers()

  Specifies that numbers should be parsed by this tokenizer. The syntax table of this tokenizer is modified so that each of the twelve characters:

        0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . -
   

  has the "numeric" attribute.

  When the parser encounters a word token that has the format of a double precision floating-point number, it treats the token as a number rather than a word, by setting the ttype field to the value TT_NUMBER and putting the numeric value of the token into the nval field.

  See Also:

  • nval
  • TT_NUMBER
  • ttype

• eolIsSignificant

  public void eolIsSignificant(boolean flag)

  Determines whether or not ends of line are treated as tokens. If the flag argument is true, this tokenizer treats end of lines as tokens; the nextToken method returns TT_EOL and also sets the ttype field to this value when an end of line is read.

  A line is a sequence of characters ending with either a carriage-return character ('\r') or a newline character ('\n'). In addition, a carriage-return character followed immediately by a newline character is treated as a single end-of-line token.

  If the flag is false, end-of-line characters are treated as white space and serve only to separate tokens.

  Parameters:

  flag - true indicates that end-of-line characters are separate tokens; false indicates that end-of-line characters are white space.

  See Also:

  • nextToken()
  • ttype
  • TT_EOL

• slashStarComments

  public void slashStarComments(boolean flag)

  Determines whether or not the tokenizer recognizes C-style comments. If the flag argument is true, this stream tokenizer recognizes C-style comments. All text between successive occurrences of /* and */ are discarded.

  If the flag argument is false, then C-style comments are not treated specially.

  Parameters:

  flag - true indicates to recognize and ignore C-style comments.

• slashSlashComments

  public void slashSlashComments(boolean flag)

  Determines whether or not the tokenizer recognizes C++-style comments. If the flag argument is true, this stream tokenizer recognizes C++-style comments. Any occurrence of two consecutive slash characters ('/') is treated as the beginning of a comment that extends to the end of the line.

  If the flag argument is false, then C++-style comments are not treated specially.

  Parameters:

  flag - true indicates to recognize and ignore C++-style comments.

• lowerCaseMode

  public void lowerCaseMode(boolean fl)

  Determines whether or not word token are automatically lowercased. If the flag argument is true, then the value in the sval field is lowercased whenever a word token is returned (the ttype field has the value TT_WORD by the nextToken method of this tokenizer.

  If the flag argument is false, then the sval field is not modified.

  Parameters:

  fl - true indicates that all word tokens should be lowercased.

  See Also:

  • nextToken()
  • ttype
  • TT_WORD

• nextToken

  public int nextToken() throws IOException

  Parses the next token from the input stream of this tokenizer. The type of the next token is returned in the ttype field. Additional information about the token may be in the nval field or the sval field of this tokenizer.

  Typical clients of this class first set up the syntax tables and then sit in a loop calling nextToken to parse successive tokens until TT_EOF is returned.

  Returns:

  the value of the ttype field.

  Throws:

  IOException - if an I/O error occurs.

  See Also:

  • nval
  • sval
  • ttype

• pushBack

  public void pushBack()

  Causes the next call to the nextToken method of this tokenizer to return the current value in the ttype field, and not to modify the value in the nval or sval field.

  See Also:

  • nextToken()
  • nval
  • sval
  • ttype

• lineno

  public int lineno()

  Return the current line number.

  Returns:

  the current line number of this stream tokenizer.

• toString

  public String toString()

  Returns the string representation of the current stream token and the line number it occurs on.

  The precise string returned is unspecified, although the following example can be considered typical:

  Token['a'], line 10

  Overrides:

  toString in class Object

  Returns:

  a string representation of the token

  See Also:

  • nval
  • sval
  • ttype