Added in API level 24

BreakIterator


abstract class BreakIterator : Cloneable
kotlin.Any
   ↳ android.icu.text.BreakIterator

[icu enhancement] ICU's replacement for java.text.BreakIterator. Methods, fields, and other functionality specific to ICU are labeled '[icu]'.

A class that locates boundaries in text. This class defines a protocol for objects that break up a piece of natural-language text according to a set of criteria. Instances or subclasses of BreakIterator can be provided, for example, to break a piece of text into words, sentences, or logical characters according to the conventions of some language or group of languages. We provide five built-in types of BreakIterator:

  • getTitleInstance() returns a BreakIterator that locates boundaries between title breaks.
  • getSentenceInstance() returns a BreakIterator that locates boundaries between sentences. This is useful for triple-click selection, for example.
  • getWordInstance() returns a BreakIterator that locates boundaries between words. This is useful for double-click selection or "find whole words" searches. This type of BreakIterator makes sure there is a boundary position at the beginning and end of each legal word. (Numbers count as words, too.) Whitespace and punctuation are kept separate from real words.
  • getLineInstance() returns a BreakIterator that locates positions where it is legal for a text editor to wrap lines. This is similar to word breaking, but not the same: punctuation and whitespace are generally kept with words (you don't want a line to start with whitespace, for example), and some special characters can force a position to be considered a line-break position or prevent a position from being a line-break position.
  • getCharacterInstance() returns a BreakIterator that locates boundaries between logical characters. Because of the structure of the Unicode encoding, a logical character may be stored internally as more than one Unicode code point. (A with an umlaut may be stored as an a followed by a separate combining umlaut character, for example, but the user still thinks of it as one character.) This iterator allows various processes (especially text editors) to treat as characters the units of text that a user would think of as characters, rather than the units of text that the computer sees as "characters".
The text boundary positions are found according to the rules described in Unicode Standard Annex #29, Text Boundaries, and Unicode Standard Annex #14, Line Breaking Properties. These are available at http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/ and http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/.

BreakIterator's interface follows an "iterator" model (hence the name), meaning it has a concept of a "current position" and methods like first(), last(), next(), and previous() that update the current position. All BreakIterators uphold the following invariants:

  • The beginning and end of the text are always treated as boundary positions.
  • The current position of the iterator is always a boundary position (random- access methods move the iterator to the nearest boundary position before or after the specified position, not to the specified position).
  • DONE is used as a flag to indicate when iteration has stopped. DONE is only returned when the current position is the end of the text and the user calls next(), or when the current position is the beginning of the text and the user calls previous().
  • Break positions are numbered by the positions of the characters that follow them. Thus, under normal circumstances, the position before the first character is 0, the position after the first character is 1, and the position after the last character is 1 plus the length of the string.
  • The client can change the position of an iterator, or the text it analyzes, at will, but cannot change the behavior. If the user wants different behavior, he must instantiate a new iterator.
BreakIterator accesses the text it analyzes through a CharacterIterator, which makes it possible to use BreakIterator to analyze text in any text-storage vehicle that provides a CharacterIterator interface. Note: Some types of BreakIterator can take a long time to create, and instances of BreakIterator are not currently cached by the system. For optimal performance, keep instances of BreakIterator around as long as makes sense. For example, when word-wrapping a document, don't create and destroy a new BreakIterator for each line. Create one break iterator for the whole document (or whatever stretch of text you're wrapping) and use it to do the whole job of wrapping the text.

Examples:

Creating and using text boundaries

public static void main(String args[]) {
       if (args.length == 1) {
           String stringToExamine = args[0];
           //print each word in order
           BreakIterator boundary = BreakIterator.getWordInstance();
           boundary.setText(stringToExamine);
           printEachForward(boundary, stringToExamine);
           //print each sentence in reverse order
           boundary = BreakIterator.getSentenceInstance(Locale.US);
           boundary.setText(stringToExamine);
           printEachBackward(boundary, stringToExamine);
           printFirst(boundary, stringToExamine);
           printLast(boundary, stringToExamine);
       }
  }
  
Print each element in order
public static void printEachForward(BreakIterator boundary, String source) {
      int start = boundary.first();
      for (int end = boundary.next();
           end != BreakIterator.DONE;
           start = end, end = boundary.next()) {
           System.out.println(source.substring(start,end));
      }
  }
  
Print each element in reverse order
public static void printEachBackward(BreakIterator boundary, String source) {
      int end = boundary.last();
      for (int start = boundary.previous();
           start != BreakIterator.DONE;
           end = start, start = boundary.previous()) {
          System.out.println(source.substring(start,end));
      }
  }
  
Print first element
public static void printFirst(BreakIterator boundary, String source) {
      int start = boundary.first();
      int end = boundary.next();
      System.out.println(source.substring(start,end));
  }
  
Print last element
public static void printLast(BreakIterator boundary, String source) {
      int end = boundary.last();
      int start = boundary.previous();
      System.out.println(source.substring(start,end));
  }
  
Print the element at a specified position
public static void printAt(BreakIterator boundary, int pos, String source) {
      int end = boundary.following(pos);
      int start = boundary.previous();
      System.out.println(source.substring(start,end));
  }
  
Find the next word
public static int nextWordStartAfter(int pos, String text) {
      BreakIterator wb = BreakIterator.getWordInstance();
      wb.setText(text);
      int wordStart = wb.following(pos);
      for (;;) {
          int wordLimit = wb.next();
          if (wordLimit == BreakIterator.DONE) {
              return BreakIterator.DONE;
          }
          int wordStatus = wb.getRuleStatus();
          if (wordStatus != BreakIterator.WORD_NONE) {
              return wordStart;
          }
          wordStart = wordLimit;
       }
  }
  
The iterator returned by #getWordInstance is unique in that the break positions it returns don't represent both the start and end of the thing being iterated over. That is, a sentence-break iterator returns breaks that each represent the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next. With the word-break iterator, the characters between two boundaries might be a word, or they might be the punctuation or whitespace between two words. The above code uses getRuleStatus to identify and ignore boundaries associated with punctuation or other non-word characters.

Summary

Constants
static Int

DONE is returned by previous() and next() after all valid boundaries have been returned.

static Int

[icu]

static Int

[icu]

static Int

[icu]

static Int

[icu]

static Int

[icu]

static Int

Tag value for words containing ideographic characters, lower limit

static Int

Tag value for words containing ideographic characters, upper limit

static Int

Tag value for words containing kana characters, lower limit

static Int

Tag value for words containing kana characters, upper limit

static Int

Tag value for words that contain letters, excluding hiragana, katakana or ideographic characters, lower limit.

static Int

Tag value for words containing letters, upper limit

static Int

Tag value for "words" that do not fit into any of other categories.

static Int

Upper bound for tags for uncategorized words.

static Int

Tag value for words that appear to be numbers, lower limit.

static Int

Tag value for words that appear to be numbers, upper limit.

Protected constructors

Default constructor.

Public methods
open Any

Clone method.

abstract Int

Return the iterator's current position.

abstract Int

Set the iterator to the first boundary position.

abstract Int
following(offset: Int)

Sets the iterator's current iteration position to be the first boundary position following the specified position.

open static Array<Locale!>!

Returns a list of locales for which BreakIterators can be used.

open static BreakIterator!

Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates logical-character boundaries.

open static BreakIterator!

Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates logical-character boundaries.

open static BreakIterator!

[icu] Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates logical-character boundaries.

open static BreakIterator!

Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates legal line- wrapping positions.

open static BreakIterator!

Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates legal line- wrapping positions.

open static BreakIterator!

[icu] Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates legal line- wrapping positions.

open Int

For RuleBasedBreakIterators, return the status tag from the break rule that determined the boundary at the current iteration position.

open Int
getRuleStatusVec(fillInArray: IntArray!)

For RuleBasedBreakIterators, get the status (tag) values from the break rule(s) that determined the the boundary at the current iteration position.

open static BreakIterator!

Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates sentence boundaries.

open static BreakIterator!

Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates sentence boundaries.

open static BreakIterator!

[icu] Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates sentence boundaries.

abstract CharacterIterator!

Returns a CharacterIterator over the text being analyzed.

open static BreakIterator!

[icu] Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates title boundaries.

open static BreakIterator!

[icu] Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates title boundaries.

open static BreakIterator!

[icu] Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates title boundaries.

open static BreakIterator!

Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates word boundaries.

open static BreakIterator!

Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates word boundaries.

open static BreakIterator!

[icu] Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates word boundaries.

open Boolean
isBoundary(offset: Int)

Return true if the specified position is a boundary position.

abstract Int

Set the iterator to the last boundary position.

abstract Int
next(n: Int)

Move the iterator by the specified number of steps in the text.

abstract Int

Advances the iterator forward one boundary.

open Int
preceding(offset: Int)

Sets the iterator's current iteration position to be the last boundary position preceding the specified position.

abstract Int

Move the iterator backward one boundary.

open Unit
setText(newText: String!)

Sets the iterator to analyze a new piece of text.

open Unit
setText(newText: CharSequence!)

Sets the iterator to analyze a new piece of text.

abstract Unit

Sets the iterator to analyze a new piece of text.

Constants

DONE

Added in API level 24
static val DONE: Int

DONE is returned by previous() and next() after all valid boundaries have been returned.

Value: -1

KIND_CHARACTER

Added in API level 24
static val KIND_CHARACTER: Int

[icu]

Value: 0

KIND_LINE

Added in API level 24
static val KIND_LINE: Int

[icu]

Value: 2

KIND_SENTENCE

Added in API level 24
static val KIND_SENTENCE: Int

[icu]

Value: 3

KIND_TITLE

Added in API level 24
Deprecated in API level 29
static val KIND_TITLE: Int

Deprecated: ICU 64 Use #getWordInstance instead.

[icu]

Value: 4

See Also

    KIND_WORD

    Added in API level 24
    static val KIND_WORD: Int

    [icu]

    Value: 1

    WORD_IDEO

    Added in API level 24
    static val WORD_IDEO: Int

    Tag value for words containing ideographic characters, lower limit

    Value: 400

    WORD_IDEO_LIMIT

    Added in API level 24
    static val WORD_IDEO_LIMIT: Int

    Tag value for words containing ideographic characters, upper limit

    Value: 500

    WORD_KANA

    Added in API level 24
    static val WORD_KANA: Int

    Tag value for words containing kana characters, lower limit

    Value: 300

    WORD_KANA_LIMIT

    Added in API level 24
    static val WORD_KANA_LIMIT: Int

    Tag value for words containing kana characters, upper limit

    Value: 400

    WORD_LETTER

    Added in API level 24
    static val WORD_LETTER: Int

    Tag value for words that contain letters, excluding hiragana, katakana or ideographic characters, lower limit.

    Value: 200

    WORD_LETTER_LIMIT

    Added in API level 24
    static val WORD_LETTER_LIMIT: Int

    Tag value for words containing letters, upper limit

    Value: 300

    WORD_NONE

    Added in API level 24
    static val WORD_NONE: Int

    Tag value for "words" that do not fit into any of other categories. Includes spaces and most punctuation.

    Value: 0

    WORD_NONE_LIMIT

    Added in API level 24
    static val WORD_NONE_LIMIT: Int

    Upper bound for tags for uncategorized words.

    Value: 100

    WORD_NUMBER

    Added in API level 24
    static val WORD_NUMBER: Int

    Tag value for words that appear to be numbers, lower limit.

    Value: 100

    WORD_NUMBER_LIMIT

    Added in API level 24
    static val WORD_NUMBER_LIMIT: Int

    Tag value for words that appear to be numbers, upper limit.

    Value: 200

    Protected constructors

    BreakIterator

    Added in API level 24
    protected BreakIterator()

    Default constructor. There is no state that is carried by this abstract base class.

    Public methods

    clone

    Added in API level 24
    open fun clone(): Any

    Clone method. Creates another BreakIterator with the same behavior and current state as this one.

    Return
    Any The clone.
    Exceptions
    java.lang.CloneNotSupportedException if the object's class does not support the Cloneable interface. Subclasses that override the clone method can also throw this exception to indicate that an instance cannot be cloned.

    current

    Added in API level 24
    abstract fun current(): Int

    Return the iterator's current position.

    Return
    Int The iterator's current position.

    first

    Added in API level 24
    abstract fun first(): Int

    Set the iterator to the first boundary position. This is always the beginning index of the text this iterator iterates over. For example, if the iterator iterates over a whole string, this function will always return 0.

    Return
    Int The character offset of the beginning of the stretch of text being broken.

    following

    Added in API level 24
    abstract fun following(offset: Int): Int

    Sets the iterator's current iteration position to be the first boundary position following the specified position. (Whether the specified position is itself a boundary position or not doesn't matter-- this function always moves the iteration position to the first boundary after the specified position.) If the specified position is the past-the-end position, returns DONE.

    Parameters
    offset Int: The character position to start searching from.
    Return
    Int The position of the first boundary position following "offset" (whether or not "offset" itself is a boundary position), or DONE if "offset" is the past-the-end offset.

    getAvailableLocales

    Added in API level 24
    open static fun getAvailableLocales(): Array<Locale!>!

    Returns a list of locales for which BreakIterators can be used.

    Return
    Array<Locale!>! An array of Locales. All of the locales in the array can be used when creating a BreakIterator.

    getCharacterInstance

    Added in API level 24
    open static fun getCharacterInstance(): BreakIterator!

    Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates logical-character boundaries. This function assumes that the text being analyzed is in the default locale's language.

    Return
    BreakIterator! A new instance of BreakIterator that locates logical-character boundaries.

    getCharacterInstance

    Added in API level 24
    open static fun getCharacterInstance(where: Locale!): BreakIterator!

    Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates logical-character boundaries.

    Parameters
    where Locale!: A Locale specifying the language of the text being analyzed.
    Return
    BreakIterator! A new instance of BreakIterator that locates logical-character boundaries.
    Exceptions
    java.lang.NullPointerException if where is null.

    getCharacterInstance

    Added in API level 24
    open static fun getCharacterInstance(where: ULocale!): BreakIterator!

    [icu] Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates logical-character boundaries.

    Parameters
    where ULocale!: A Locale specifying the language of the text being analyzed.
    Return
    BreakIterator! A new instance of BreakIterator that locates logical-character boundaries.
    Exceptions
    java.lang.NullPointerException if where is null.

    getLineInstance

    Added in API level 24
    open static fun getLineInstance(): BreakIterator!

    Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates legal line- wrapping positions. This function assumes the text being broken is in the default locale's language.

    Return
    BreakIterator! A new instance of BreakIterator that locates legal line-wrapping positions.

    getLineInstance

    Added in API level 24
    open static fun getLineInstance(where: Locale!): BreakIterator!

    Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates legal line- wrapping positions.

    Parameters
    where Locale!: A Locale specifying the language of the text being broken.
    Return
    BreakIterator! A new instance of BreakIterator that locates legal line-wrapping positions.
    Exceptions
    java.lang.NullPointerException if where is null.

    getLineInstance

    Added in API level 24
    open static fun getLineInstance(where: ULocale!): BreakIterator!

    [icu] Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates legal line- wrapping positions.

    Parameters
    where ULocale!: A Locale specifying the language of the text being broken.
    Return
    BreakIterator! A new instance of BreakIterator that locates legal line-wrapping positions.
    Exceptions
    java.lang.NullPointerException if where is null.

    getRuleStatus

    Added in API level 24
    open fun getRuleStatus(): Int

    For RuleBasedBreakIterators, return the status tag from the break rule that determined the boundary at the current iteration position.

    For break iterator types that do not support a rule status, a default value of 0 is returned.

    Return
    Int The status from the break rule that determined the boundary at the current iteration position.

    getRuleStatusVec

    Added in API level 24
    open fun getRuleStatusVec(fillInArray: IntArray!): Int

    For RuleBasedBreakIterators, get the status (tag) values from the break rule(s) that determined the the boundary at the current iteration position.

    For break iterator types that do not support rule status, no values are returned.

    If the size of the output array is insufficient to hold the data, the output will be truncated to the available length. No exception will be thrown.

    Parameters
    fillInArray IntArray!: an array to be filled in with the status values.
    Return
    Int The number of rule status values from rules that determined the the boundary at the current iteration position. In the event that the array is too small, the return value is the total number of status values that were available, not the reduced number that were actually returned.

    getSentenceInstance

    Added in API level 24
    open static fun getSentenceInstance(): BreakIterator!

    Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates sentence boundaries. This function assumes the text being analyzed is in the default locale's language.

    Return
    BreakIterator! A new instance of BreakIterator that locates sentence boundaries.

    getSentenceInstance

    Added in API level 24
    open static fun getSentenceInstance(where: Locale!): BreakIterator!

    Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates sentence boundaries.

    Parameters
    where Locale!: A Locale specifying the language of the text being analyzed.
    Return
    BreakIterator! A new instance of BreakIterator that locates sentence boundaries.
    Exceptions
    java.lang.NullPointerException if where is null.

    getSentenceInstance

    Added in API level 24
    open static fun getSentenceInstance(where: ULocale!): BreakIterator!

    [icu] Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates sentence boundaries.

    Parameters
    where ULocale!: A Locale specifying the language of the text being analyzed.
    Return
    BreakIterator! A new instance of BreakIterator that locates sentence boundaries.
    Exceptions
    java.lang.NullPointerException if where is null.

    getText

    Added in API level 24
    abstract fun getText(): CharacterIterator!

    Returns a CharacterIterator over the text being analyzed.

    Caution:The state of the returned CharacterIterator must not be modified in any way while the BreakIterator is still in use. Doing so will lead to undefined behavior of the BreakIterator. Clone the returned CharacterIterator first and work with that.

    The returned CharacterIterator is a reference to the actual iterator being used by the BreakIterator. No guarantees are made about the current position of this iterator when it is returned; it may differ from the BreakIterators current position. If you need to move that position to examine the text, clone this function's return value first.

    Return
    CharacterIterator! A CharacterIterator over the text being analyzed.

    getTitleInstance

    Added in API level 24
    Deprecated in API level 29
    open static fun getTitleInstance(): BreakIterator!

    Deprecated: ICU 64 Use #getWordInstance instead.

    [icu] Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates title boundaries. This function assumes the text being analyzed is in the default locale's language. The iterator returned locates title boundaries as described for Unicode 3.2 only. For Unicode 4.0 and above title boundary iteration, please use a word boundary iterator. #getWordInstance

    Return
    BreakIterator! A new instance of BreakIterator that locates title boundaries.

    getTitleInstance

    Added in API level 24
    Deprecated in API level 29
    open static fun getTitleInstance(where: Locale!): BreakIterator!

    Deprecated: ICU 64 Use #getWordInstance instead.

    [icu] Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates title boundaries. The iterator returned locates title boundaries as described for Unicode 3.2 only. For Unicode 4.0 and above title boundary iteration, please use Word Boundary iterator.#getWordInstance

    Parameters
    where Locale!: A Locale specifying the language of the text being analyzed.
    Return
    BreakIterator! A new instance of BreakIterator that locates title boundaries.
    Exceptions
    java.lang.NullPointerException if where is null.

    getTitleInstance

    Added in API level 24
    Deprecated in API level 29
    open static fun getTitleInstance(where: ULocale!): BreakIterator!

    Deprecated: ICU 64 Use #getWordInstance instead.

    [icu] Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates title boundaries. The iterator returned locates title boundaries as described for Unicode 3.2 only. For Unicode 4.0 and above title boundary iteration, please use Word Boundary iterator.#getWordInstance

    Parameters
    where ULocale!: A Locale specifying the language of the text being analyzed.
    Return
    BreakIterator! A new instance of BreakIterator that locates title boundaries.
    Exceptions
    java.lang.NullPointerException if where is null.

    getWordInstance

    Added in API level 24
    open static fun getWordInstance(): BreakIterator!

    Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates word boundaries. This function assumes that the text being analyzed is in the default locale's language.

    Return
    BreakIterator! An instance of BreakIterator that locates word boundaries.

    getWordInstance

    Added in API level 24
    open static fun getWordInstance(where: Locale!): BreakIterator!

    Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates word boundaries.

    Parameters
    where Locale!: A locale specifying the language of the text to be analyzed.
    Return
    BreakIterator! An instance of BreakIterator that locates word boundaries.
    Exceptions
    java.lang.NullPointerException if where is null.

    getWordInstance

    Added in API level 24
    open static fun getWordInstance(where: ULocale!): BreakIterator!

    [icu] Returns a new instance of BreakIterator that locates word boundaries.

    Parameters
    where ULocale!: A locale specifying the language of the text to be analyzed.
    Return
    BreakIterator! An instance of BreakIterator that locates word boundaries.
    Exceptions
    java.lang.NullPointerException if where is null.

    isBoundary

    Added in API level 24
    open fun isBoundary(offset: Int): Boolean

    Return true if the specified position is a boundary position. If the function returns true, the current iteration position is set to the specified position; if the function returns false, the current iteration position is set as though following() had been called.

    Parameters
    offset Int: the offset to check.
    Return
    Boolean True if "offset" is a boundary position.

    last

    Added in API level 24
    abstract fun last(): Int

    Set the iterator to the last boundary position. This is always the "past-the-end" index of the text this iterator iterates over. For example, if the iterator iterates over a whole string (call it "text"), this function will always return text.length().

    Return
    Int The character offset of the end of the stretch of text being broken.

    next

    Added in API level 24
    abstract fun next(n: Int): Int

    Move the iterator by the specified number of steps in the text. A positive number moves the iterator forward; a negative number moves the iterator backwards. If this causes the iterator to move off either end of the text, this function returns DONE; otherwise, this function returns the position of the appropriate boundary. Calling this function is equivalent to calling next() or previous() n times.

    Parameters
    n Int: The number of boundaries to advance over (if positive, moves forward; if negative, moves backwards).
    Return
    Int The position of the boundary n boundaries from the current iteration position, or DONE if moving n boundaries causes the iterator to advance off either end of the text.

    next

    Added in API level 24
    abstract fun next(): Int

    Advances the iterator forward one boundary. The current iteration position is updated to point to the next boundary position after the current position, and this is also the value that is returned. If the current position is equal to the value returned by last(), or to DONE, this function returns DONE and sets the current position to DONE.

    Return
    Int The position of the first boundary position following the iteration position.

    preceding

    Added in API level 24
    open fun preceding(offset: Int): Int

    Sets the iterator's current iteration position to be the last boundary position preceding the specified position. (Whether the specified position is itself a boundary position or not doesn't matter-- this function always moves the iteration position to the last boundary before the specified position.) If the specified position is the starting position, returns DONE.

    Parameters
    offset Int: The character position to start searching from.
    Return
    Int The position of the last boundary position preceding "offset" (whether of not "offset" itself is a boundary position), or DONE if "offset" is the starting offset of the iterator.

    previous

    Added in API level 24
    abstract fun previous(): Int

    Move the iterator backward one boundary. The current iteration position is updated to point to the last boundary position before the current position, and this is also the value that is returned. If the current position is equal to the value returned by first(), or to DONE, this function returns DONE and sets the current position to DONE.

    Return
    Int The position of the last boundary position preceding the iteration position.

    setText

    Added in API level 24
    open fun setText(newText: String!): Unit

    Sets the iterator to analyze a new piece of text. The new piece of text is passed in as a String, and the current iteration position is reset to the beginning of the string. (The old text is dropped.)

    Parameters
    newText String!: A String containing the text to analyze with this BreakIterator.

    setText

    Added in API level 29
    open fun setText(newText: CharSequence!): Unit

    Sets the iterator to analyze a new piece of text. The new piece of text is passed in as a CharSequence, and the current iteration position is reset to the beginning of the text. (The old text is dropped.)

    The text underlying the CharSequence must not be be modified while the BreakIterator holds a references to it. (As could possibly occur with a StringBuilder, for example).

    Parameters
    newText CharSequence!: A CharSequence containing the text to analyze with this BreakIterator.

    setText

    Added in API level 24
    abstract fun setText(newText: CharacterIterator!): Unit

    Sets the iterator to analyze a new piece of text. This function resets the current iteration position to the beginning of the text. (The old iterator is dropped.)

    Caution: The supplied CharacterIterator is used directly by the BreakIterator, and must not be altered in any way by code outside of the BreakIterator. Doing so will lead to undefined behavior of the BreakIterator.

    Parameters
    newText CharacterIterator!: A CharacterIterator referring to the text to analyze with this BreakIterator (the iterator's current position is ignored, but its other state is significant).