com.ls.util.text
Class WildcardString

java.lang.Object
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public class WildcardString

extends Object

Implementation of the UN*X wildcards in Java. So they are available in a portable way and can be used whereever needed.

Scans a set of characters and returns false if the set mismatches at this position in the teststring and true if it is matching wildcard is set to the closing ] and test is unmodified if mismatched and otherwise the char pointer is pointing to the next character
scans an asterisk

Version:

$Revision: 1.2 $

Author:

Last modified by $Author: MFehrenbach $

Constructor Summary

WildcardString()
Simple constructor

WildcardString(String wildcardPar, String testPar)
Constructor

Method Summary

boolean	areMatching(String wildcardPar, String testPar) Retrieves the result of matching
boolean	areMatching(String wildcardPar, String testPar, boolean caseDep) Retrieves the result of matching
boolean	areNotMatching(String wildcardPar, String testPar) Retrieves the result of "not matching" function
boolean	areNotMatching(String wildcardPar, String testPar, boolean caseDep) Retrieves the result of "not matching" function
boolean	getResult() Retrieves the result
void	setTest(String testPar) set test test
void	setWildcard(String wildcardPar) set wildcard test

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

WildcardString

public WildcardString(String wildcardPar,
                      String testPar)

Constructor

Parameters:

wildcardPar - wildcard string

testPar - test string2

WildcardString

public WildcardString()

Simple constructor

Method Detail

setWildcard

public void setWildcard(String wildcardPar)

set wildcard test

Parameters:

wildcardPar - wildcard string contains the rule for testing

setTest

public void setTest(String testPar)

set test test

Parameters:

testPar - test string to be tested

getResult

public boolean getResult()

Retrieves the result

Returns:

true if test string match wildcard string

areMatching

public boolean areMatching(String wildcardPar,
                           String testPar)

Retrieves the result of matching

Parameters:

wildcardPar - wildcard string contains the rule for testing

testPar - test string to be tested

Returns:

true if the second parameter matches the wildcardPar passed as the first parameter

areMatching

public boolean areMatching(String wildcardPar,
                           String testPar,
                           boolean caseDep)

Retrieves the result of matching

Parameters:

wildcardPar - wildcard string contains the rule for testing

testPar - test string to be tested

caseDep - define if the comparison will be case dependent

Returns:

true if the second parameter matches the wildcardPar passed as the first parameter

areNotMatching

public boolean areNotMatching(String wildcardPar,
                              String testPar)

Retrieves the result of "not matching" function

Parameters:

wildcardPar - wildcard string contains the rule for testing

testPar - test string to be tested

Returns:

true if the second parameter does not match the wildcardPar passed as the first parameter

areNotMatching

public boolean areNotMatching(String wildcardPar,
                              String testPar,
                              boolean caseDep)

Retrieves the result of "not matching" function

Parameters:

wildcardPar - wildcard string contains the rule for testing

testPar - test string to be tested

caseDep - define if the comparison will be case dependent

Returns:

true if the second parameter does not match the wildcardPar passed as the first parameter