// © 2016 and later: Unicode, Inc. and others. // License & terms of use: http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html /* ************************************************************************** * Copyright (C) 1999-2012, International Business Machines Corporation and * others. All Rights Reserved. ************************************************************************** * Date Name Description * 11/17/99 aliu Creation. Ported from java. Modified to * match current UnicodeString API. Forced * to use name "handleReplaceBetween" because * of existing methods in UnicodeString. ************************************************************************** */ #ifndef REP_H #define REP_H #include "unicode/utypes.h" #if U_SHOW_CPLUSPLUS_API #include "unicode/uobject.h" /** * \file * \brief C++ API: Replaceable String */ U_NAMESPACE_BEGIN class UnicodeString; /** * <code>Replaceable</code> is an abstract base class representing a * string of characters that supports the replacement of a range of * itself with a new string of characters. It is used by APIs that * change a piece of text while retaining metadata. Metadata is data * other than the Unicode characters returned by char32At(). One * example of metadata is style attributes; another is an edit * history, marking each character with an author and revision number. * * <p>An implicit aspect of the <code>Replaceable</code> API is that * during a replace operation, new characters take on the metadata of * the old characters. For example, if the string "the <b>bold</b> * font" has range (4, 8) replaced with "strong", then it becomes "the * <b>strong</b> font". * * <p><code>Replaceable</code> specifies ranges using a start * offset and a limit offset. The range of characters thus specified * includes the characters at offset start..limit-1. That is, the * start offset is inclusive, and the limit offset is exclusive. * * <p><code>Replaceable</code> also includes API to access characters * in the string: <code>length()</code>, <code>charAt()</code>, * <code>char32At()</code>, and <code>extractBetween()</code>. * * <p>For a subclass to support metadata, typical behavior of * <code>replace()</code> is the following: * <ul> * <li>Set the metadata of the new text to the metadata of the first * character replaced</li> * <li>If no characters are replaced, use the metadata of the * previous character</li> * <li>If there is no previous character (i.e. start == 0), use the * following character</li> * <li>If there is no following character (i.e. the replaceable was * empty), use default metadata.<br> * <li>If the code point U+FFFF is seen, it should be interpreted as * a special marker having no metadata<li> * </li> * </ul> * If this is not the behavior, the subclass should document any differences. * @author Alan Liu * @stable ICU 2.0 */ class U_COMMON_API Replaceable : public UObject { … }; inline Replaceable::Replaceable() { … } inline int32_t Replaceable::length() const { … } inline char16_t Replaceable::charAt(int32_t offset) const { … } inline UChar32 Replaceable::char32At(int32_t offset) const { … } // There is no rep.cpp, see unistr.cpp for Replaceable function implementations. U_NAMESPACE_END #endif /* U_SHOW_CPLUSPLUS_API */ #endif