FieldPosition is a simple class used by Format and its subclasses to identify fields in formatted output. More...

#include <fieldpos.h>

Inheritance diagram for icu::FieldPosition:

Public Types
enum	{ DONT_CARE = -1 }
	DONT_CARE may be specified as the field to indicate that the caller doesn't need to specify a field. More...

Public Member Functions
	FieldPosition ()
	Creates a FieldPosition object with a non-specified field. More...

	FieldPosition (int32_t field)
	Creates a FieldPosition object for the given field. More...

	FieldPosition (const FieldPosition &copy)
	Copy constructor. More...

virtual	~FieldPosition ()
	Destructor. More...

FieldPosition &	operator= (const FieldPosition &copy)
	Assignment operator. More...

UBool	operator== (const FieldPosition &that) const
	Equality operator. More...

UBool	operator!= (const FieldPosition &that) const
	Equality operator. More...

FieldPosition *	clone () const
	Clone this object. More...

int32_t	getField (void) const
	Retrieve the field identifier. More...

int32_t	getBeginIndex (void) const
	Retrieve the index of the first character in the requested field. More...

int32_t	getEndIndex (void) const
	Retrieve the index of the character following the last character in the requested field. More...

void	setField (int32_t f)
	Set the field. More...

void	setBeginIndex (int32_t bi)
	Set the begin index. More...

void	setEndIndex (int32_t ei)
	Set the end index. More...

virtual UClassID	getDynamicClassID () const
	ICU "poor man's RTTI", returns a UClassID for the actual class. More...

Public Member Functions inherited from icu::UObject
virtual	~UObject ()
	Destructor. More...

Static Public Member Functions
static UClassID	getStaticClassID ()
	ICU "poor man's RTTI", returns a UClassID for this class. More...

Detailed Description

FieldPosition is a simple class used by Format and its subclasses to identify fields in formatted output.

Fields are identified by constants, whose names typically end with _FIELD, defined in the various subclasses of Format. See ERA_FIELD and its friends in DateFormat for an example.

FieldPosition keeps track of the position of the field within the formatted output with two indices: the index of the first character of the field and the index of the last character of the field.

One version of the format method in the various Format classes requires a FieldPosition object as an argument. You use this format method to perform partial formatting or to get information about the formatted output (such as the position of a field).

The FieldPosition class is not suitable for subclassing.

Below is an example of using FieldPosition to aid alignment of an array of formatted floating-point numbers on their decimal points:

double doubleNum[] = {123456789.0, -12345678.9, 1234567.89, -123456.789,
           12345.6789, -1234.56789, 123.456789, -12.3456789, 1.23456789};
int dNumSize = (int)(sizeof(doubleNum)/sizeof(double));

UErrorCode status = U_ZERO_ERROR;
DecimalFormat* fmt = (DecimalFormat*) NumberFormat::createInstance(status);
fmt->setDecimalSeparatorAlwaysShown(true);

const int tempLen = 20;
char temp[tempLen];

for (int i=0; i<dNumSize; i++) {
    FieldPosition pos(NumberFormat::INTEGER_FIELD);
    UnicodeString buf;
    char fmtText[tempLen];
    ToCharString(fmt->format(doubleNum[i], buf, pos), fmtText);
    for (int j=0; j<tempLen; j++) temp[j] = ' '; // clear with spaces
    temp[__min(tempLen, tempLen-pos.getEndIndex())] = '\0';
    cout << temp << fmtText   << endl;
}
delete fmt;

The code will generate the following output:

123,456,789.000
-12,345,678.900
  1,234,567.880
   -123,456.789
     12,345.678
     -1,234.567
        123.456
        -12.345
          1.234

Definition at line 106 of file fieldpos.h.

Member Enumeration Documentation

anonymous enum

DONT_CARE may be specified as the field to indicate that the caller doesn't need to specify a field.

Do not subclass.

Definition at line 112 of file fieldpos.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

icu::FieldPosition::FieldPosition ( )

inline

Creates a FieldPosition object with a non-specified field.

Stable:: ICU 2.0

Definition at line 118 of file fieldpos.h.

icu::FieldPosition::FieldPosition ( int32_t field )

inline

Creates a FieldPosition object for the given field.

Fields are identified by constants, whose names typically end with _FIELD, in the various subclasses of Format.

See also: NumberFormat::INTEGER_FIELD; NumberFormat::FRACTION_FIELD; DateFormat::YEAR_FIELD; DateFormat::MONTH_FIELD

Stable:: ICU 2.0

Definition at line 132 of file fieldpos.h.

icu::FieldPosition::FieldPosition ( const FieldPosition & copy )

inline

Copy constructor.

Parameters

copy	the object to be copied from.

Stable:: ICU 2.0

Definition at line 140 of file fieldpos.h.

virtual icu::FieldPosition::~FieldPosition ( )

virtual

Destructor.

Stable:: ICU 2.0

Member Function Documentation

FieldPosition* icu::FieldPosition::clone ( ) const

Clone this object.

Clones can be used concurrently in multiple threads. If an error occurs, then NULL is returned. The caller must delete the clone.

Returns: a clone of this object

See also: getDynamicClassID

Stable:: ICU 2.8

int32_t icu::FieldPosition::getBeginIndex ( void ) const

inline

Retrieve the index of the first character in the requested field.

Returns: the index of the first character in the requested field.

Stable:: ICU 2.0

Definition at line 197 of file fieldpos.h.

virtual UClassID icu::FieldPosition::getDynamicClassID ( ) const

virtual

ICU "poor man's RTTI", returns a UClassID for the actual class.

Stable:: ICU 2.2

Reimplemented from icu::UObject.

int32_t icu::FieldPosition::getEndIndex ( void ) const

inline

Retrieve the index of the character following the last character in the requested field.

Returns: the index of the character following the last character in the requested field.

Stable:: ICU 2.0

Definition at line 206 of file fieldpos.h.

int32_t icu::FieldPosition::getField ( void ) const

inline

Retrieve the field identifier.

Returns: the field identifier.

Stable:: ICU 2.0

Definition at line 190 of file fieldpos.h.

static UClassID icu::FieldPosition::getStaticClassID ( )

static

ICU "poor man's RTTI", returns a UClassID for this class.

Stable:: ICU 2.2

UBool icu::FieldPosition::operator!= ( const FieldPosition & that ) const

inline

Equality operator.

Parameters

that	the object to be compared with.

Returns: TRUE if the two field positions are not equal, FALSE otherwise.

Stable:: ICU 2.0

Definition at line 281 of file fieldpos.h.

References icu::operator==().

FieldPosition & icu::FieldPosition::operator= ( const FieldPosition & copy )

inline

Assignment operator.

Parameters

copy	the object to be copied from.

Stable:: ICU 2.0

Definition at line 264 of file fieldpos.h.

UBool icu::FieldPosition::operator== ( const FieldPosition & that ) const

inline

Equality operator.

Parameters

that	the object to be compared with.

Returns: TRUE if the two field positions are equal, FALSE otherwise.

Stable:: ICU 2.0

Definition at line 273 of file fieldpos.h.

void icu::FieldPosition::setBeginIndex ( int32_t bi )

inline

Set the begin index.

For use by subclasses of Format.

Parameters

bi	the new value of the begin index

Stable:: ICU 2.0

Definition at line 220 of file fieldpos.h.

void icu::FieldPosition::setEndIndex ( int32_t ei )

inline

Set the end index.

For use by subclasses of Format.

Parameters

ei	the new value of the end index

Stable:: ICU 2.0

Definition at line 227 of file fieldpos.h.

void icu::FieldPosition::setField ( int32_t f )

inline

Set the field.

Parameters

f	the new value of the field.

Stable:: ICU 2.0

Definition at line 213 of file fieldpos.h.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

fieldpos.h

Public Types

Public Member Functions

Static Public Member Functions

Detailed Description

Member Enumeration Documentation

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Member Function Documentation