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package org.eclipse.jface.text.rules;
import org.eclipse.jface.text.IDocument;
/**
* A token scanner scans a range of a document and reports about the token it finds.
* A scanner has state. When asked, the scanner returns the offset and the length of the
* last found token.
*
* @see org.eclipse.jface.text.rules.IToken
* @since 2.0
*/
public interface ITokenScanner {
/**
* Configures the scanner by providing access to the document range that should
* be scanned.
*
* @param document the document to scan
* @param offset the offset of the document range to scan
* @param length the length of the document range to scan
*/
void setRange(IDocument document, int offset, int length);
/**
* Returns the next token in the document.
*
* @return the next token in the document
*/
IToken nextToken();
/**
* Returns the offset of the last token read by this scanner.
*
* @return the offset of the last token read by this scanner
*/
int getTokenOffset();
/**
* Returns the length of the last token read by this scanner.
*
* @return the length of the last token read by this scanner
*/
int getTokenLength();
}