lowercasefilter.java

Lucene a java open-source SearchEngine Framework

package org.apache.lucene.analysis;

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import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Normalizes token text to lower case.
 *
 * @version $Id: LowerCaseFilter.java 564715 2007-08-10 18:34:33Z mikemccand $
 */
public final class LowerCaseFilter extends TokenFilter {
  public LowerCaseFilter(TokenStream in) {
    super(in);
  }

  public final Token next(Token result) throws IOException {
    result = input.next(result);
    if (result != null) {

      final char[] buffer = result.termBuffer();
      final int length = result.termLength;
      for(int i=0;i<length;i++)
        buffer[i] = Character.toLowerCase(buffer[i]);

      return result;
    } else
      return null;
  }
}