org.apache.lucene.analysis.cn.smart

## Class Utility

- java.lang.Object
- - org.apache.lucene.analysis.cn.smart.Utility

    public class Utility
    extends Object

SmartChineseAnalyzer utility constants and methods

WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### Field Summary

Fields
`static char[]` `COMMON_DELIMITER` Delimiters will be filtered to this character by `SegTokenFilter`
`static char[]` `END_CHAR_ARRAY`
`static int` `MAX_FREQUENCE` Maximum bigram frequency (used in the smoothing function).
`static char[]` `NUMBER_CHAR_ARRAY`
`static String` `SPACES` Space-like characters that need to be skipped: such as space, tab, newline, carriage return.
`static char[]` `START_CHAR_ARRAY`
`static char[]` `STRING_CHAR_ARRAY`

### Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor and Description
`Utility()`

### Method Summary

Methods
`static int` `compareArray(char[] larray, int lstartIndex, char[] rarray, int rstartIndex)` compare two arrays starting at the specified offsets.
`static int` `compareArrayByPrefix(char[] shortArray, int shortIndex, char[] longArray, int longIndex)` Compare two arrays, starting at the specified offsets, but treating shortArray as a prefix to longArray.
`static int` `getCharType(char ch)` Return the internal `CharType` constant of a given character.

### Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

### Field Detail

#### STRING_CHAR_ARRAY

    public static final char[] STRING_CHAR_ARRAY

#### NUMBER_CHAR_ARRAY

    public static final char[] NUMBER_CHAR_ARRAY

#### START_CHAR_ARRAY

    public static final char[] START_CHAR_ARRAY

#### END_CHAR_ARRAY

    public static final char[] END_CHAR_ARRAY

#### COMMON_DELIMITER

    public static final char[] COMMON_DELIMITER

Delimiters will be filtered to this character by `SegTokenFilter`

#### SPACES

    public static final String SPACES

Space-like characters that need to be skipped: such as space, tab, newline, carriage return.

See Also:
  Constant Field Values

#### MAX_FREQUENCE

    public static final int MAX_FREQUENCE

Maximum bigram frequency (used in the smoothing function).

See Also:
  Constant Field Values

### Constructor Detail

#### Utility

    public Utility()

### Method Detail

#### compareArray

    public static int compareArray(char[] larray,
                   int lstartIndex,
                   char[] rarray,
                   int rstartIndex)

compare two arrays starting at the specified offsets.

Parameters:
  `larray` - left array
  `lstartIndex` - start offset into larray
  `rarray` - right array
  `rstartIndex` - start offset into rarray
Returns:
  0 if the arrays are equal，1 if larray > rarray, -1 if larray < rarray

#### compareArrayByPrefix

    public static int compareArrayByPrefix(char[] shortArray,
                           int shortIndex,
                           char[] longArray,
                           int longIndex)

Compare two arrays, starting at the specified offsets, but treating shortArray as a prefix to longArray. As long as shortArray is a prefix of longArray, return 0. Otherwise, behave as `compareArray(char[], int, char[], int)`

Parameters:
  `shortArray` - prefix array
  `shortIndex` - offset into shortArray
  `longArray` - long array (word)
  `longIndex` - offset into longArray
Returns:
  0 if shortArray is a prefix of longArray, otherwise act as `compareArray(char[], int, char[], int)`

#### getCharType

    public static int getCharType(char ch)

Return the internal `CharType` constant of a given character.

Parameters:
  `ch` - input character
Returns:
  constant from `CharType` describing the character type.
See Also:
  `CharType`