package org.apache.oro.text.regex;

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/**
 * The CharStringPointer class is used to facilitate traversal of a char[]
 * in the manner pointer traversals of strings are performed in C/C++.
 * It is expected that the compiler will inline all the functions.

 @author <a href="mailto:dfs@savarese.org">Daniel F. Savarese</a>
 @version $Id: CharStringPointer.java,v 1.1 2004/01/10 00:58:23 mikedemmer Exp $

 */
final class CharStringPointer {
  static final char _END_OF_STRING = Character.MAX_VALUE;
  int _offset;
  char[] _array;

  CharStringPointer(char[] charArray, int offset) {
    _array  = charArray;
    _offset = offset;
  }

  CharStringPointer(char[] charArray) {
    this(charArray, 0);
  }

  char _getValue()  {
    return _getValue(_offset);
  }

  char _getValue(int offset) {
    if(offset < _array.length && offset >= 0)
      return _array[offset];
    return _END_OF_STRING;
  }

  char _getValueRelative(int offset) {
    return _getValue(_offset + offset);
  }

  int _getLength() { return _array.length; }

  int _getOffset() { return _offset; }

  void _setOffset(int offset) { _offset = offset; }

  boolean _isAtEnd() {
    return (_offset >= _array.length);
  }

  char _increment(int inc) {
    _offset+=inc;
    if(_isAtEnd()) {
      _offset = _array.length;
      return _END_OF_STRING;
    }

    return _array[_offset];
  }

  char _increment() { return _increment(1); }

  char _decrement(int inc) {
    _offset-=inc; 
    if(_offset < 0)
      _offset = 0;

    return _array[_offset];
  }

  char _decrement() { return _decrement(1); }

  char _postIncrement() {
    char ret;
    ret = _getValue();
    _increment();
    return ret;
  }

  char _postDecrement() {
    char ret;
    ret = _getValue();
    _decrement();
    return ret;
  }


  String _toString(int offset) {
    return new String(_array, offset, _array.length - offset);
  }

  public String toString() {
    return _toString(0);
  }
}