CharSeq.java

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package org.netbeans.editor;



/**
 * Subset of functionality of CharSequence present in JDK1.4.
 *
 * @author Miloslav Metelka
 * @version 1.00
 */


public interface CharSeq {
    
    /**
     * Returns the length of this character sequence.  The length is the number
     * of 16-bit Unicode characters in the sequence. </p>
     *
     * @return  the number of characters in this sequence
     */
    int length();
    
    /**
     * Returns the character at the specified index.  An index ranges from zero
     * to <tt>length() - 1</tt>.  The first character of the sequence is at
     * index zero, the next at index one, and so on, as for array
     * indexing. </p>
     *
     * @param   index   the index of the character to be returned
     *
     * @return  the specified character
     *
     * @throws  IndexOutOfBoundsException
     *          if the <tt>index</tt> argument is negative or not less than
     *          <tt>length()</tt>
     */
    char charAt(int index);
    
}