psdi.app.recontask.engine

Class LikePatternMatcher

java.lang.Object

psdi.app.recontask.engine.LikePatternMatcher

public class LikePatternMatcher
extends java.lang.Object

Matches a String object to a pattern emulating SQL LIKE

Author:

Petko Popov

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
LikePatternMatcher(java.lang.String pattern) The pattern can contain the following wildcards _ or ? for a single character match % or * for 0 to any number of characters

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	match(java.lang.String value)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

LikePatternMatcher

public LikePatternMatcher(java.lang.String pattern)

The pattern can contain the following wildcards

_ or ? for a single character match % or * for 0 to any number of characters

Duplicate wildcards are translated to a literal match to one wildcard (for example, ** is matched for the character *)

If the string has no wildcard at all, % is appended in front and at the end

Method Detail

match

public boolean match(java.lang.String value)

See Also:

comment for the pattern rules