CharSequenceRemoveUUEncodedBlocks.java

package cc.mallet.pipe;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import cc.mallet.pipe.Pipe;
import cc.mallet.types.Instance;



public class CharSequenceRemoveUUEncodedBlocks extends Pipe {
	/**
	 Given a string, remove lines that begin with M and are 61 characters long.
	 Note that there are some UUEncoded blocks that do not match this.  
	 I have seen some that are 64 characters long, and have no regular prefix character,
	 but this filter gets most of them in 20 Newsgroups.

  @author Andrew McCallum <a href="mailto:mccallum@cs.umass.edu">mccallum@cs.umass.edu</a>
*/
	public static final Pattern UU_ENCODED_LINE= Pattern.compile ("^M.{60}$");
	
	public CharSequenceRemoveUUEncodedBlocks ()
	{
	}

	public Instance pipe (Instance carrier)
	{
		String string = ((CharSequence)carrier.getData()).toString();
		Matcher m = UU_ENCODED_LINE.matcher(string);
		carrier.setData(m.replaceAll (""));
		return carrier;
	}

	//Serialization
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1;
	private static final int CURRENT_SERIAL_VERSION = 0;
	
	private void writeObject (ObjectOutputStream out) throws IOException {
		out.writeInt (CURRENT_SERIAL_VERSION);
	}
	
	private void readObject (ObjectInputStream in) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
		@SuppressWarnings("unused")
		int version = in.readInt ();
	}

}