// Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. #ifndef BASE_I18N_BREAK_ITERATOR_H_ #define BASE_I18N_BREAK_ITERATOR_H_ #include "base/basictypes.h" #include "base/i18n/base_i18n_export.h" #include "base/strings/string16.h" // The BreakIterator class iterates through the words, word breaks, and // line breaks in a UTF-16 string. // // It provides several modes, BREAK_WORD, BREAK_LINE, and BREAK_NEWLINE, // which modify how characters are aggregated into the returned string. // // Under BREAK_WORD mode, once a word is encountered any non-word // characters are not included in the returned string (e.g. in the // UTF-16 equivalent of the string " foo bar! ", the word breaks are at // the periods in ". .foo. .bar.!. ."). // Note that Chinese/Japanese/Thai do not use spaces between words so that // boundaries can fall in the middle of a continuous run of non-space / // non-punctuation characters. // // Under BREAK_LINE mode, once a line breaking opportunity is encountered, // any non-word characters are included in the returned string, breaking // only when a space-equivalent character or a line breaking opportunity // is encountered (e.g. in the UTF16-equivalent of the string " foo bar! ", // the breaks are at the periods in ". .foo .bar! ."). // // Note that lines can be broken at any character/syllable/grapheme cluster // boundary in Chinese/Japanese/Korean and at word boundaries in Thai // (Thai does not use spaces between words). Therefore, this is NOT the same // as breaking only at space-equivalent characters where its former // name (BREAK_SPACE) implied. // // Under BREAK_NEWLINE mode, all characters are included in the returned // string, breking only when a newline-equivalent character is encountered // (eg. in the UTF-16 equivalent of the string "foo\nbar!\n\n", the line // breaks are at the periods in ".foo\n.bar\n.\n."). // // To extract the words from a string, move a BREAK_WORD BreakIterator // through the string and test whether IsWord() is true. E.g., // BreakIterator iter(str, BreakIterator::BREAK_WORD); // if (!iter.Init()) // return false; // while (iter.Advance()) { // if (iter.IsWord()) { // // Region [iter.prev(), iter.pos()) contains a word. // VLOG(1) << "word: " << iter.GetString(); // } // } namespace base { namespace i18n { class BASE_I18N_EXPORT BreakIterator { public: enum BreakType { BREAK_WORD, BREAK_LINE, // TODO(jshin): Remove this after reviewing call sites. // If call sites really need break only on space-like characters // implement it separately. BREAK_SPACE = BREAK_LINE, BREAK_NEWLINE, BREAK_CHARACTER, }; // Requires |str| to live as long as the BreakIterator does. BreakIterator(const string16& str, BreakType break_type); ~BreakIterator(); // Init() must be called before any of the iterators are valid. // Returns false if ICU failed to initialize. bool Init(); // Advance to the next break. Returns false if we've run past the end of // the string. (Note that the very last "break" is after the final // character in the string, and when we advance to that position it's the // last time Advance() returns true.) bool Advance(); // Under BREAK_WORD mode, returns true if the break we just hit is the // end of a word. (Otherwise, the break iterator just skipped over e.g. // whitespace or punctuation.) Under BREAK_LINE and BREAK_NEWLINE modes, // this distinction doesn't apply and it always retuns false. bool IsWord() const; // Under BREAK_WORD mode, returns true if |position| is at the end of word or // at the start of word. It always retuns false under BREAK_LINE and // BREAK_NEWLINE modes. bool IsEndOfWord(size_t position) const; bool IsStartOfWord(size_t position) const; // Returns the string between prev() and pos(). // Advance() must have been called successfully at least once for pos() to // have advanced to somewhere useful. string16 GetString() const; // Returns the value of pos() returned before Advance() was last called. size_t prev() const { return prev_; } // Returns the current break position within the string, // or BreakIterator::npos when done. size_t pos() const { return pos_; } private: // ICU iterator, avoiding ICU ubrk.h dependence. // This is actually an ICU UBreakiterator* type, which turns out to be // a typedef for a void* in the ICU headers. Using void* directly prevents // callers from needing access to the ICU public headers directory. void* iter_; // The string we're iterating over. const string16& string_; // The breaking style (word/space/newline). BreakType break_type_; // Previous and current iterator positions. size_t prev_, pos_; DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(BreakIterator); }; } // namespace i18n } // namespace base #endif // BASE_I18N_BREAK_ITERATOR_H_