IStringFinder.java

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package net.sourceforge.tagsea.core.ui.internal.views;

import org.eclipse.jface.text.IRegion;

/**
 * Simple interface that finds a series of regions within text.
 * @author Del Myers
 */

public interface IStringFinder {
	
	/**
	 * Returns the regions found in the order that they were found. An
	 * empty array is returned if no regions were found.
	 * @param text
	 * @return
	 */
	public IRegion[] findRegions(String text);

}