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package org.springframework.batch.item.file.transform;
/**
* Interface that is used by framework to split string obtained typically from a
* file into tokens.
*
* @author tomas.slanina
*
*/
public interface LineTokenizer {
/**
* Yields the tokens resulting from the splitting of the supplied
* <code>line</code>.
*
* @param line the line to be tokenized (can be <code>null</code>)
*
* @return the resulting tokens
*/
FieldSet tokenize(String line);
}