Class StreamTokenizer

The numeric value associated with number tokens.

The String associated with word and string tokens.

Contains the type of the token read resulting from a call to nextToken The rules are as follows:

• For a token consisting of a single ordinary character, this is the value of that character.
• For a quoted string, this is the value of the quote character
• For a word, this is TT_WORD
• For a number, this is TT_NUMBER
• For the end of the line, this is TT_EOL
• For the end of the stream, this is TT_EOF

A constant indicating that the end of the stream has been read.

A constant indicating that the end of the line has been read.

A constant indicating that a number token has been read.

A constant indicating that a word token has been read.

Deprecated: Since JDK 1.1.

This method reads bytes from an InputStream and tokenizes them. For details on how this method operates by default, see StreamTokenizer(Reader).

Parameters: is The InputStream to read from

This method initializes a new StreamTokenizer to read characters from a Reader and parse them. The char values have their hight bits masked so that the value is treated a character in the range of 0x0000 to 0x00FF.

This constructor sets up the parsing table to parse the stream in the following manner:

• The values 'A' through 'Z', 'a' through 'z' and 0xA0 through 0xFF are initialized as alphabetic
• The values 0x00 through 0x20 are initialized as whitespace
• The values '\'' and '"' are initialized as quote characters
• '/' is a comment character
• Numbers will be parsed
• EOL is not treated as significant
• C and C++ (//) comments are not recognized

Parameters: r The Reader to read chars from

This method sets the comment attribute on the specified character. Other attributes for the character are cleared.

Parameters: ch The character to set the comment attribute for, passed as an int

This method sets a flag that indicates whether or not the end of line sequence terminates and is a token. The defaults to false

Parameters: flag true if EOF is significant, false otherwise

This method returns the current line number. Note that if the pushBack() method is called, it has no effect on the line number returned by this method.

Returns: The current line number

This method sets a flag that indicates whether or not alphabetic tokens that are returned should be converted to lower case.

Parameters: flag true to convert to lower case, false otherwise

This method reads the next token from the stream. It sets the ttype variable to the appropriate token type and returns it. It also can set sval or nval as described below. The parsing strategy is as follows:

• Skip any whitespace characters.
• If a numeric character is encountered, attempt to parse a numeric value. Leading '-' characters indicate a numeric only if followed by another non-'-' numeric. The value of the numeric token is terminated by either the first non-numeric encountered, or the second occurrence of '-' or '.'. The token type returned is TT_NUMBER and nval is set to the value parsed.
• If an alphabetic character is parsed, all subsequent characters are read until the first non-alphabetic or non-numeric character is encountered. The token type returned is TT_WORD and the value parsed is stored in sval. If lower case mode is set, the token stored in sval is converted to lower case. The end of line sequence terminates a word only if EOL signficance has been turned on. The start of a comment also terminates a word. Any character with a non-alphabetic and non-numeric attribute (such as white space, a quote, or a commet) are treated as non-alphabetic and terminate the word.
• If a comment character is parsed, then all remaining characters on the current line are skipped and another token is parsed. Any EOL or EOF's encountered are not discarded, but rather terminate the comment.
• If a quote character is parsed, then all characters up to the second occurrence of the same quote character are parsed into a String. This String is stored as sval, but is not converted to lower case, even if lower case mode is enabled. The token type returned is the value of the quote character encountered. Any escape sequences (\b (backspace), \t (HTAB), \n (linefeed), \f (form feed), \r (carriage return), \" (double quote), \' (single quote), \\ (backslash), \XXX (octal esacpe)) are converted to the appropriate char values. Invalid esacape sequences are left in untranslated. Unicode characters like ('\ u0000') are not recognized.
• If the C++ comment sequence "//" is encountered, and the parser is configured to handle that sequence, then the remainder of the line is skipped and another token is read exactly as if a character with the comment attribute was encountered.
• If the C comment sequence "/*" is encountered, and the parser is configured to handle that sequence, then all characters up to and including the comment terminator sequence are discarded and another token is parsed.
• If all cases above are not met, then the character is an ordinary character that is parsed as a token by itself. The char encountered is returned as the token type.

Returns: The token type

Throws: IOException If an I/O error occurs

This method makes the specified character an ordinary character. This means that none of the attributes (whitespace, alphabetic, numeric, quote, or comment) will be set on this character. This character will parse as its own token.

Parameters: ch The character to make ordinary, passed as an int

This method makes all the characters in the specified range, range terminators included, ordinary. This means the none of the attributes (whitespace, alphabetic, numeric, quote, or comment) will be set on any of the characters in the range. This makes each character in this range parse as its own token.

Parameters: low The low end of the range of values to set the whitespace attribute for hi The high end of the range of values to set the whitespace attribute for

This method sets the numeric attribute on the characters '0' - '9' and the characters '.' and '-'. When this method is used, the result of giving other attributes (whitespace, quote, or comment) to the numeric characters may vary depending on the implementation. For example, if parseNumbers() and then whitespaceChars('1', '1') are called, this implementation reads "121" as 2, while some other implementation will read it as 21.

Puts the current token back into the StreamTokenizer so nextToken will return the same value on the next call. May cause the lineno method to return an incorrect value if lineno is called before the next call to nextToken.

This method sets the quote attribute on the specified character. Other attributes for the character are cleared.

Parameters: ch The character to set the quote attribute for, passed as an int.

This method removes all attributes (whitespace, alphabetic, numeric, quote, and comment) from all characters. It is equivalent to calling ordinaryChars(0x00, 0xFF).

See Also: StreamTokenizer

This method sets a flag that indicates whether or not "C++" language style comments ("//" comments through EOL ) are handled by the parser. If this is true commented out sequences are skipped and ignored by the parser. This defaults to false.

Parameters: flag true to recognized and handle "C++" style comments, false otherwise

This method sets a flag that indicates whether or not "C" language style comments (with nesting not allowed) are handled by the parser. If this is true commented out sequences are skipped and ignored by the parser. This defaults to false.

Parameters: flag true to recognized and handle "C" style comments, false otherwise

This method returns the current token value as a String in the form "Token[x], line n", where 'n' is the current line numbers and 'x' is determined as follows.

• If no token has been read, then 'x' is "NOTHING" and 'n' is 0
• If ttype is TT_EOF, then 'x' is "EOF"
• If ttype is TT_EOL, then 'x' is "EOL"
• If ttype is TT_WORD, then 'x' is sval
• If ttype is TT_NUMBER, then 'x' is "n=strnval" where 'strnval' is String.valueOf(nval).
• If ttype is a quote character, then 'x' is sval
• For all other cases, 'x' is ttype

This method sets the whitespace attribute for all characters in the specified range, range terminators included.

Parameters: low The low end of the range of values to set the whitespace attribute for hi The high end of the range of values to set the whitespace attribute for

This method sets the alphabetic attribute for all characters in the specified range, range terminators included.

Parameters: low The low end of the range of values to set the alphabetic attribute for hi The high end of the range of values to set the alphabetic attribute for