icu::CollationElementIterator Class Referencefinal

The CollationElementIterator class is used as an iterator to walk through
each character of an international string. More...

`#include <coleitr.h>`

Inheritance diagram for icu::CollationElementIterator:

## Public Types

enum | { NULLORDER = (int32_t)0xffffffff }

## Public Member Functions

| CollationElementIterator (const CollationElementIterator &other)
| Copy constructor. More...
virtual | ~CollationElementIterator ()
| Destructor. More...
bool | operator== (const CollationElementIterator &other) const
| Returns true if "other" is the same as "this". More...
bool | operator!= (const CollationElementIterator &other) const
| Returns true if "other" is not the same as "this". More...
void | reset ()
| Resets the cursor to the beginning of the string. More...
int32_t | next (UErrorCode &status)
| Gets the ordering priority of the next character in the string. More...
int32_t | previous (UErrorCode &status)
| Get the ordering priority of the previous collation element in the string. More...
int32_t | getMaxExpansion (int32_t order) const
| Return the maximum length of any expansion sequences that end with the specified comparison order. More...
int32_t | strengthOrder (int32_t order) const
| Gets the comparison order in the desired strength. More...
void | setText (const UnicodeString &str, UErrorCode &status)
| Sets the source string. More...
void | setText (CharacterIterator &str, UErrorCode &status)
| Sets the source string. More...
int32_t | getOffset () const
| Gets the offset of the currently processed character in the source string. More...
void | setOffset (int32_t newOffset, UErrorCode &status)
| Sets the offset of the currently processed character in the source string. More...
virtual UClassID | getDynamicClassID () const override
| ICU "poor man's RTTI", returns a UClassID for the actual class. More...
UCollationElements * | toUCollationElements ()
const UCollationElements * | toUCollationElements () const
Public Member Functions inherited from icu::UObject
virtual | ~UObject ()
| Destructor. More...

## Static Public Member Functions

static int32_t | primaryOrder (int32_t order)
| Gets the primary order of a collation order. More...
static int32_t | secondaryOrder (int32_t order)
| Gets the secondary order of a collation order. More...
static int32_t | tertiaryOrder (int32_t order)
| Gets the tertiary order of a collation order. More...
static UBool | isIgnorable (int32_t order)
| Checks if a comparison order is ignorable. More...
static UClassID | getStaticClassID ()
| ICU "poor man's RTTI", returns a UClassID for this class. More...
static CollationElementIterator * | fromUCollationElements (UCollationElements *uc)
static const CollationElementIterator * | fromUCollationElements (const UCollationElements *uc)

## Friends

class | RuleBasedCollator
class | UCollationPCE

## Detailed Description

The CollationElementIterator class is used as an iterator to walk through
each character of an international string.

Use the iterator to return the ordering priority of the positioned character. The ordering priority of a character, which we refer to as a key, defines how a character is collated in the given collation object. For example, consider the following in Slovak and in traditional Spanish collation:

           "ca" -> the first key is key('c') and second key is key('a').
           "cha" -> the first key is key('ch') and second key is key('a').

And in German phonebook collation,

     "æb"-> the first key is key('a'), the second key is key('e'), and
           the third key is key('b').

The key of a character, is an integer composed of primary order(short), secondary order(char), and tertiary order(char). Java strictly defines the size and signedness of its primitive data types. Therefore, the static functions primaryOrder(), secondaryOrder(), and tertiaryOrder() return int32_t to ensure the correctness of the key value.

Example of the iterator usage: (without error checking)

    void CollationElementIterator_Example()
    {
        UnicodeString str = "This is a test";
        UErrorCode success = U_ZERO_ERROR;
        RuleBasedCollator* rbc =
            (RuleBasedCollator*) RuleBasedCollator::createInstance(success);
        CollationElementIterator* c =
            rbc->createCollationElementIterator( str );
        int32_t order = c->next(success);
        c->reset();
        order = c->previous(success);
        delete c;
        delete rbc;
    }
    icu::CollationElementIterator::CollationElementIteratorCollationElementIterator(const CollationElementIterator &other)Copy constructor.
    icu::Collator::createInstancestatic Collator * createInstance(UErrorCode &err)Creates the Collator object for the current default locale.
    UErrorCodeUErrorCodeStandard ICU4C error code type, a substitute for exceptions.Definition: utypes.h:415
    U_ZERO_ERROR@ U_ZERO_ERRORNo error, no warning.Definition: utypes.h:450

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The method next() returns the collation order of the next character based on the comparison level of the collator. The method previous() returns the collation order of the previous character based on the comparison level of the collator. The Collation Element Iterator moves only in one direction between calls to reset(), setOffset(), or setText(). That is, next() and previous() can not be inter-used. Whenever previous() is to be called after next() or vice versa, reset(), setOffset() or setText() has to be called first to reset the status, shifting pointers to either the end or the start of the string (reset() or setText()), or the specified position (setOffset()). Hence at the next call of next() or previous(), the first or last collation order, or collation order at the specified position will be returned. If a change of direction is done without one of these calls, the result is undefined.

The result of a forward iterate (next()) and reversed result of the backward iterate (previous()) on the same string are equivalent, if collation orders with the value 0 are ignored. Character based on the comparison level of the collator. A collation order consists of primary order, secondary order and tertiary order. The data type of the collation order is int32_t.

Note, CollationElementIterator should not be subclassed.

See also
  Collator
  RuleBasedCollator

Version
  1.8 Jan 16 2001

Definition at line 121 of file coleitr.h.

## Member Enumeration Documentation

## anonymous enum

anonymous enum

Enumerator

NULLORDER

NULLORDER indicates that an error has occurred while processing.

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

Definition at line 126 of file coleitr.h.

## Constructor & Destructor Documentation

## CollationElementIterator()

icu::CollationElementIterator::CollationElementIterator | ( | const CollationElementIterator & | other | ) |

Copy constructor.

Parameters

  other | the object to be copied from

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

## ~CollationElementIterator()

virtual icu::CollationElementIterator::~CollationElementIterator | ( |  | ) |

virtual

Destructor.

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

## Member Function Documentation

## fromUCollationElements() [1/2]

static const CollationElementIterator* icu::CollationElementIterator::fromUCollationElements | ( | const UCollationElements * | uc | ) |

inlinestatic

Internal:
  Do not use.

This API is for internal use only.

Definition at line 297 of file coleitr.h.

## fromUCollationElements() [2/2]

static CollationElementIterator* icu::CollationElementIterator::fromUCollationElements | ( | UCollationElements * | uc | ) |

inlinestatic

Internal:
  Do not use.

This API is for internal use only.

Definition at line 293 of file coleitr.h.

## getDynamicClassID()

virtual UClassID icu::CollationElementIterator::getDynamicClassID | ( |  | ) | const

overridevirtual

ICU "poor man's RTTI", returns a UClassID for the actual class.

Stable:
  ICU 2.2

Reimplemented from icu::UObject.

## getMaxExpansion()

int32_t icu::CollationElementIterator::getMaxExpansion | ( | int32_t | order | ) | const

Return the maximum length of any expansion sequences that end with the specified comparison order.

Parameters

  order | a collation order returned by previous or next.

Returns
  maximum size of the expansion sequences ending with the collation element or 1 if collation element does not occur at the end of any expansion sequence

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

## getOffset()

int32_t icu::CollationElementIterator::getOffset | ( |  | ) | const

Gets the offset of the currently processed character in the source string.

Returns
  the offset of the character.

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

## getStaticClassID()

static UClassID icu::CollationElementIterator::getStaticClassID | ( |  | ) |

static

ICU "poor man's RTTI", returns a UClassID for this class.

Stable:
  ICU 2.2

## isIgnorable()

UBool icu::CollationElementIterator::isIgnorable | ( | int32_t | order | ) |

inlinestatic

Checks if a comparison order is ignorable.

Parameters

  order | the collation order.

Returns
  true if a character is ignorable, false otherwise.

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

Definition at line 400 of file coleitr.h.

## next()

int32_t icu::CollationElementIterator::next | ( | UErrorCode & | status | ) |

Gets the ordering priority of the next character in the string.

Parameters

  status | the error code status.

Returns
  the next character's ordering. otherwise returns NULLORDER if an error has occurred or if the end of string has been reached

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

## operator!=()

bool icu::CollationElementIterator::operator!= | ( | const CollationElementIterator & | other | ) | const

Returns true if "other" is not the same as "this".

Parameters

  other | the object to be compared

Returns
  true if "other" is not the same as "this"

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

## operator==()

bool icu::CollationElementIterator::operator== | ( | const CollationElementIterator & | other | ) | const

Returns true if "other" is the same as "this".

Parameters

  other | the object to be compared

Returns
  true if "other" is the same as "this"

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

## previous()

int32_t icu::CollationElementIterator::previous | ( | UErrorCode & | status | ) |

Get the ordering priority of the previous collation element in the string.

Parameters

  status | the error code status.

Returns
  the previous element's ordering. otherwise returns NULLORDER if an error has occurred or if the start of string has been reached

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

## primaryOrder()

int32_t icu::CollationElementIterator::primaryOrder | ( | int32_t | order | ) |

inlinestatic

Gets the primary order of a collation order.

Parameters

  order | the collation order

Returns
  the primary order of a collation order.

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

Definition at line 385 of file coleitr.h.

## reset()

void icu::CollationElementIterator::reset | ( |  | ) |

Resets the cursor to the beginning of the string.

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

## secondaryOrder()

int32_t icu::CollationElementIterator::secondaryOrder | ( | int32_t | order | ) |

inlinestatic

Gets the secondary order of a collation order.

Parameters

  order | the collation order

Returns
  the secondary order of a collation order.

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

Definition at line 390 of file coleitr.h.

## setOffset()

void icu::CollationElementIterator::setOffset | ( | int32_t | newOffset,
|  | UErrorCode & | status
| ) |  |

Sets the offset of the currently processed character in the source string.

Parameters

  newOffset | the new offset.
  status | the error code status.

Returns
  the offset of the character.

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

## setText() [1/2]

void icu::CollationElementIterator::setText | ( | CharacterIterator & | str,
|  | UErrorCode & | status
| ) |  |

Sets the source string.

Parameters

  str | the source character iterator.
  status | the error code status.

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

## setText() [2/2]

void icu::CollationElementIterator::setText | ( | const UnicodeString & | str,
|  | UErrorCode & | status
| ) |  |

Sets the source string.

Parameters

  str | the source string.
  status | the error code status.

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

## strengthOrder()

int32_t icu::CollationElementIterator::strengthOrder | ( | int32_t | order | ) | const

Gets the comparison order in the desired strength.

Ignore the other differences.

Parameters

  order | The order value

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

## tertiaryOrder()

int32_t icu::CollationElementIterator::tertiaryOrder | ( | int32_t | order | ) |

inlinestatic

Gets the tertiary order of a collation order.

Parameters

  order | the collation order

Returns
  the tertiary order of a collation order.

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

Definition at line 395 of file coleitr.h.

## toUCollationElements() [1/2]

UCollationElements* icu::CollationElementIterator::toUCollationElements | ( |  | ) |

inline

Internal:
  Do not use.

This API is for internal use only.

Definition at line 301 of file coleitr.h.

## toUCollationElements() [2/2]

const UCollationElements* icu::CollationElementIterator::toUCollationElements | ( |  | ) | const

inline

Internal:
  Do not use.

This API is for internal use only.

Definition at line 305 of file coleitr.h.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

- i18n/unicode/coleitr.h