cat.lump.ie.textprocessing.sentence

Class Punctuation

java.lang.Object

cat.lump.ie.textprocessing.sentence.Punctuation

public class Punctuation
extends java.lang.Object

Regular expression-based punctuation finder. It determines whether a text contains punctuation marks (or is only composed of them). TODO check if some class uses this. Otherwise, discard it.

Author:

albarron

See Also:

PunctuationTest

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Punctuation()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static boolean	containsPunctuation(java.lang.String str)
static boolean	onlyPunctuation(java.lang.String str)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Punctuation

public Punctuation()

Method Detail

containsPunctuation

public static boolean containsPunctuation(java.lang.String str)

Parameters:

str -

Returns:

true if str contains a punctuation mark

onlyPunctuation

public static boolean onlyPunctuation(java.lang.String str)

Parameters:

str -

Returns:

true if str is composed of punctuation marks only