Package com.owenfeehan.pathpatternfinder.trim.constantsubstring

Class TrimConstantSubstring

Object

com.owenfeehan.pathpatternfinder.trim.constantsubstring.TrimConstantSubstring

All Implemented Interfaces:

TrimOperation<String>

public class TrimConstantSubstring
extends Object
implements TrimOperation<String>

Attempts to split a string by finding an identical sub-string in all strings, so long as it is always located at the same index (relative to left).

Author:

Owen Feehan

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
TrimConstantSubstring(UnresolvedPatternElementFactory factory)	Constructor

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Optional<Pattern>	trim(List<String> source)	Attempts to trim the list of objects by finding a Pattern.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

TrimConstantSubstring

public TrimConstantSubstring(UnresolvedPatternElementFactory factory)

Constructor

Parameters:

factory - factory for creating unresolved pattern elements

Method Details

trim

public Optional<Pattern> trim(List<String> source)

Description copied from interface: TrimOperation

Attempts to trim the list of objects by finding a Pattern.

Specified by:

trim in interface TrimOperation<String>

Parameters:

source - list of objects

Returns:

if successful, a pattern with the trimmed elements (and what remains to be resolved) as elements, otherwise Optional.empty() if unsuccessful