A Source can be searched for patterns, and wraps buffers and other objects and provides consumption of text
Constructor @param arg must be a String, and should be a valid XML document @param encoding if non-null, sets the encoding of the source to this value, overriding all encoding detection
# File rexml/source.rb, line 41 def initialize(arg, encoding=nil) @orig = @buffer = arg if encoding self.encoding = encoding else detect_encoding end @line = 0 end
# File rexml/source.rb, line 85 def consume( pattern ) @buffer = $' if pattern.match( @buffer ) end
@return the current line in the source
# File rexml/source.rb, line 115 def current_line lines = @orig.split res = lines.grep @buffer[0..30] res = res[-1] if res.kind_of? Array lines.index( res ) if res end
@return true if the Source is exhausted
# File rexml/source.rb, line 106 def empty? @buffer == "" end
Inherited from Encoding Overridden to support optimized en/decoding
# File rexml/source.rb, line 54 def encoding=(enc) return unless super encoding_updated end
# File rexml/source.rb, line 99 def match(pattern, cons=false) md = pattern.match(@buffer) @buffer = $' if cons and md return md end
# File rexml/source.rb, line 89 def match_to( char, pattern ) return pattern.match(@buffer) end
# File rexml/source.rb, line 93 def match_to_consume( char, pattern ) md = pattern.match(@buffer) @buffer = $' return md end
# File rexml/source.rb, line 110 def position @orig.index( @buffer ) end
Scans the source for a given pattern. Note, that this is not your usual scan() method. For one thing, the pattern argument has some requirements; for another, the source can be consumed. You can easily confuse this method. Originally, the patterns were easier to construct and this method more robust, because this method generated search regexps on the fly; however, this was computationally expensive and slowed down the entire REXML package considerably, since this is by far the most commonly called method. @param pattern must be a Regexp, and must be in the form of /^s*(#{your pattern, with no groups})(.*)/. The first group will be returned; the second group is used if the consume flag is set. @param consume if true, the pattern returned will be consumed, leaving everything after it in the Source. @return the pattern, if found, or nil if the Source is empty or the pattern is not found.
# File rexml/source.rb, line 75 def scan(pattern, cons=false) return nil if @buffer.nil? rv = @buffer.scan(pattern) @buffer = $' if cons and rv.size>0 rv end