Class BreakIterator

shared/java/BreakIterator.java:190–551

A class that locates boundaries in text. This class defines a protocol for objects that break up a piece of natural-language text according to a set of criteria. Instances or subclasses of BreakIterator can be provided, for example, to break a piece of text into words, sentences, or logical cha

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public class BreakIterator extends Managed implements Cloneable {
    static { Library.staticLoad(); }

    /**
     * DONE is returned by previous() and next() after all valid
     * boundaries have been returned.
     */
    public static final int DONE = -1;

    /**
     * Tag value for "words" that do not fit into any of other categories.
     * Includes spaces and most punctuation.
     */
    public static final int WORD_NONE           = 0;

    /**
     * Upper bound for tags for uncategorized words.
     */
    public static final int WORD_NONE_LIMIT     = 100;

    /**
     * Tag value for words that appear to be numbers, lower limit.
     */
    public static final int WORD_NUMBER         = 100;

    /**
     * Tag value for words that appear to be numbers, upper limit.
     */
    public static final int WORD_NUMBER_LIMIT   = 200;

    /**
     * Tag value for words that contain letters, excluding
     * hiragana, katakana or ideographic characters, lower limit.
     */
    public static final int WORD_LETTER         = 200;

    /**
     * Tag value for words containing letters, upper limit
     */
    public static final int WORD_LETTER_LIMIT   = 300;

    /**
     * Tag value for words containing kana characters, lower limit
     */
    public static final int WORD_KANA           = 300;

    /**
     * Tag value for words containing kana characters, upper limit
     */
    public static final int WORD_KANA_LIMIT     = 400;

    /**
     * Tag value for words containing ideographic characters, lower limit
     */
    public static final int WORD_IDEO           = 400;

    /**
     * Tag value for words containing ideographic characters, upper limit