net.sf.csv4j
Class CSVTokenizer

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.csv4j.CSVTokenizer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Iterable<String>, Enumeration<String>, Iterator<String>, Tokenizer<String>

public class CSVTokenizer
extends Object
implements Tokenizer<String>, Enumeration<String>, Iterator<String>, Iterable<String>

Provides an API similar to StringTokenizer. In addition to StringTokenizer's two interfaces, this class also supports the Iterator interface. It supports too many style of iterations as a result:

• Tokenizer style
• Iterator style
• Enumerator style

Since:

1.0

Author:

Shawn Boyce

See Also:

Comma Separated Values on Wikipedia, StringTokenizer

Constructor Summary

CSVTokenizer(String line)
Creates a tokenizer from the specified CSV line.

Method Summary

int	countTokens() Indicates how many tokens are left.
boolean	hasMoreElements()
boolean	hasMoreTokens() Indicates if more tokens are available.
boolean	hasNext()
Iterator<String>	iterator()
String	next()
String	nextElement()
String	nextToken() Returns the next token.
void	remove() Not supported.
void	reset() Reset the iterator back to the beginning.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

CSVTokenizer

public CSVTokenizer(String line)
             throws ParseException

Creates a tokenizer from the specified CSV line.

Parameters:

line - string to tokenize

Throws:

ParseException - if the line cannot be tokenized

Method Detail

nextToken

public String nextToken()

Returns the next token.

Specified by:

nextToken in interface Tokenizer<String>

Returns:

next token string

hasMoreTokens

public boolean hasMoreTokens()

Indicates if more tokens are available.

Specified by:

hasMoreTokens in interface Tokenizer<String>

Returns:

true if more tokens; false if not

countTokens

public int countTokens()

Indicates how many tokens are left. Note the value returned is not constant; calls to Tokenizer.nextToken() will cause the count to reduce.

Specified by:

countTokens in interface Tokenizer<String>

Returns:

number of tokens left

hasMoreElements

public boolean hasMoreElements()

Specified by:

hasMoreElements in interface Enumeration<String>

nextElement

public String nextElement()

Specified by:

nextElement in interface Enumeration<String>

hasNext

public boolean hasNext()

Specified by:

hasNext in interface Iterator<String>

next

public String next()

Specified by:

next in interface Iterator<String>

remove

public void remove()

Not supported.

Specified by:

remove in interface Iterator<String>

Throws:

RuntimeException - always thrown

reset

public void reset()

Reset the iterator back to the beginning.

iterator

public Iterator<String> iterator()

Specified by:

iterator in interface Iterable<String>