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 * $URL: https://scummvm.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/scummvm/scummvm/tags/release-1-2-1/common/tokenizer.h $
 * $Id: tokenizer.h 48310 2010-03-20 12:56:56Z lordhoto $
 */

#ifndef COMMON_TOKENIZER_H
#define COMMON_TOKENIZER_H

#include "common/scummsys.h"
#include "common/str.h"

namespace Common {

/**
 * A simple non-optimized string tokenizer.
 *
 * Example of use:
 * StringTokenizer("Now, this is a test!", " ,!") gives tokens "Now", "this", "is", "a" and "test" using nextToken().
 */
class StringTokenizer {
public:
	/**
	 * Creates a StringTokenizer.
	 * @param str The string to be tokenized.
	 * @param delimiters String containing all the delimiter characters (i.e. the characters to be ignored).
	 * @note Uses space, horizontal tab, carriage return, newline, form feed and vertical tab as delimiters by default.
	 */
	StringTokenizer(const String &str, const String &delimiters = " \t\r\n\f\v");
	void reset();       ///< Resets the tokenizer to its initial state
	bool empty() const; ///< Returns true if there are no more tokens left in the string, false otherwise
	String nextToken(); ///< Returns the next token from the string (Or an empty string if there are no more tokens)

private:
	const String _str;        ///< The string to be tokenized
	const String _delimiters; ///< String containing all the delimiter characters
	uint         _tokenBegin; ///< Latest found token's begin (Valid after a call to nextToken(), zero otherwise)
	uint         _tokenEnd;   ///< Latest found token's end (Valid after a call to nextToken(), zero otherwise)
};

} // End of namespace Common

#endif
