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package org.apache.lucene.analysis.core;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Tokenizer;
import org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeFactory;
/**
* LowerCaseTokenizer performs the function of LetterTokenizer
* and LowerCaseFilter together. It divides text at non-letters and converts
* them to lower case. While it is functionally equivalent to the combination
* of LetterTokenizer and LowerCaseFilter, there is a performance advantage
* to doing the two tasks at once, hence this (redundant) implementation.
* <P>
* Note: this does a decent job for most European languages, but does a terrible
* job for some Asian languages, where words are not separated by spaces.
* </p>
*/
public final class LowerCaseTokenizer extends LetterTokenizer {
/**
* Construct a new LowerCaseTokenizer.
*/
public LowerCaseTokenizer() {
}
/**
* Construct a new LowerCaseTokenizer using a given
* {@link org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeFactory}.
*
* @param factory
* the attribute factory to use for this {@link Tokenizer}
*/
public LowerCaseTokenizer(AttributeFactory factory) {
super(factory);
}
/** Converts char to lower case
* {@link Character#toLowerCase(int)}.*/
@Override
protected int normalize(int c) {
return Character.toLowerCase(c);
}
}