class ICU::BreakIterator

• ICU::BreakIterator
• Reference
• Object

Overview

This class defines methods for finding the location of -line, sentense and word- boundaries in text.

Usage

str = "หน้าแรก"
bi = ICU::BreakIterator.new(str, ICU::BreakIterator::Type::Word)
bi.each { |s| p s }
# => "หน้า"
# => "แรก"
bi.to_a # => ["หน้า", "แรก"]

See also

• reference implementation
• user guide
• unit tests

Included Modules

• Enumerable(String)

Defined in:

Constant Summary

DONE = -1

LOCALES = begin locales = (0...LibICU.ubrk_count_available).map do |i| String.new(LibICU.ubrk_get_available(i)) end Set(String).new(locales) end

Constructors

• .new(break_type : Type, locale : String? = nil)

  Create a new BreakIterator

• .new(text : String, break_type : Type, locale : String? = nil)

  Creates a new BreakIterator specifying some text

Instance Method Summary

• #each(&)

  Iterate on text boundaries

• #each_bound(&)

  Iterate on text boundaries indices

• #finalize
• #text : ICU::UChars?
• #text=(text : String)

  Change the text that's being iterated on

• #to_unsafe : LibICU::UBreakIterator

Constructor Detail

bi = ICU::BreakIterator.new(ICU::BreakIterator::Type::Word)
bi.text = "abc def ghi"
bi.to_a # => ["abc", " ", "def", " ", "ghi"]

str = "Some text. More text."
bi = ICU::BreakIterator.new(str, ICU::BreakIterator::Type::Sentence)
bi.to_a # => ["Some text. ", "More text."]

Instance Method Detail

str = "abc def ghi"
bi = ICU::BreakIterator.new(str, ICU::BreakIterator::Type::Word)
bi.to_a # => ["abc", " ", "def", " ", "ghi"]
bi.each { |s| p s }
# => "abc"
# => " "
# => "def"
# => " "
# => "ghi"

str = "abc def"
bi = ICU::BreakIterator.new(str, ICU::BreakIterator::Type::Word)
bi.each_bound { |i| p i }
# => 0
# => 3
# => 4
# => 7