edu.mit.ai.psg.jeva
Class LiteralMethods

java.lang.Object
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  +--edu.mit.ai.psg.jeva.LiteralMethods

public class LiteralMethods

extends Object

Methods for creating primitives from literal strings.

Constructor Summary

LiteralMethods()

Method Summary

static Character	createCharacterFromLiteral(String s)
static char	createCharFromPossiblyEscapedLiteral(String s, int start, int end, int[] nextPos) [3.10.6 Escape Sequences for Character and String Literals]
static Number	createFloatingPointFromLiteral(String digits)
static Number	createIntegerFromLiteral(String digits)
static String	createStringFromLiteral(String s)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

LiteralMethods

public LiteralMethods()

Method Detail

createIntegerFromLiteral

public static final Number createIntegerFromLiteral(String digits)

createFloatingPointFromLiteral

public static final Number createFloatingPointFromLiteral(String digits)

createCharacterFromLiteral

public static final Character createCharacterFromLiteral(String s)

createStringFromLiteral

public static final String createStringFromLiteral(String s)

createCharFromPossiblyEscapedLiteral

public static final char createCharFromPossiblyEscapedLiteral(String s,
                                                              int start,
                                                              int end,
                                                              int[] nextPos)

[3.10.6 Escape Sequences for Character and String Literals]

Parameters:

s - the string containing the character literal

start - the starting position, including the '\'

end - where to stop searching, e.g. the end of the string.

nextPos - a place to store the next position after all the chars in the character literal. (for lack of easy way to return multiple values)