## org.apache.lucene.analysis.pattern
Class PatternTokenizer

    java.lang.Object
      org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeSource
          org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream
              org.apache.lucene.analysis.Tokenizer
                  org.apache.lucene.analysis.pattern.PatternTokenizer

All Implemented Interfaces:
  Closeable

    public final class PatternTokenizer

extends Tokenizer

This tokenizer uses regex pattern matching to construct distinct tokens for the input stream. It takes two arguments: "pattern" and "group".

- "pattern" is the regular expression.
- "group" says which group to extract into tokens.

group=-1 (the default) is equivalent to "split". In this case, the tokens will be equivalent to the output from (without empty tokens): `String.split(java.lang.String)`

Using group >= 0 selects the matching group as the token. For example, if you have:

      pattern = \'([^\']+)\'
      group = 0
      input = aaa 'bbb' 'ccc'

the output will be two tokens: 'bbb' and 'ccc' (including the ' marks). With the same input but using group=1, the output would be: bbb and ccc (no ' marks)

NOTE: This Tokenizer does not output tokens that are of zero length.

See Also:
  `Pattern`

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeSource
`AttributeSource.AttributeFactory, AttributeSource.State`

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.Tokenizer
`input`

Constructor Summary
`PatternTokenizer(Reader input, Pattern pattern, int group)` creates a new PatternTokenizer returning tokens from group (-1 for split functionality)

Method Summary
`void` `end()`
`boolean` `incrementToken()`
`void` `reset()`

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.Tokenizer
`close, correctOffset, setReader`

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeSource
`addAttribute, addAttributeImpl, captureState, clearAttributes, cloneAttributes, copyTo, equals, getAttribute, getAttributeClassesIterator, getAttributeFactory, getAttributeImplsIterator, hasAttribute, hasAttributes, hashCode, reflectAsString, reflectWith, restoreState`

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Constructor Detail

### PatternTokenizer

    public PatternTokenizer(Reader input,
                            Pattern pattern,
                            int group)
                     throws IOException

  creates a new PatternTokenizer returning tokens from group (-1 for split functionality)

  Throws:
    `IOException`

Method Detail

### incrementToken

    public boolean incrementToken()

  Specified by:
    `incrementToken` in class `TokenStream`

### end

    public void end()

  Overrides:
    `end` in class `TokenStream`

### reset

    public void reset()
               throws IOException

  Overrides:
    `reset` in class `TokenStream`
  Throws:
    `IOException`

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