Lexer

All Known Implementing Classes:

BashLexer, CLexer, ClojureLexer, CppLexer, DefaultJFlexLexer, DOSBatchLexer, EmptyLexer, GroovyLexer, JavaLexer, JavaScriptLexer, JFlexLexer, LuaLexer, PropertiesLexer, PythonLexer, RubyLexer, ScalaLexer, SimpleRegexLexer, SqlLexer, TALLexer, XHTMLLexer, XmlLexer, XPathLexer
```
public interface Lexer
```
Lexers must implement these methods. These are used in the Tokenizer A Lexer should be tied to one document.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`parse(javax.swing.text.Segment segment, int ofst, java.util.List<Token> tokens)`	This is the only method a Lexer needs to implement.

- Method Detail
  - parse
```
void parse(javax.swing.text.Segment segment,
           int ofst,
           java.util.List<Token> tokens)
```
    This is the only method a Lexer needs to implement. It will be passed a Reader, and it should return non-overlapping Tokens for each recognized token in the stream.
    
    Parameters:
    
    segment - Text to parse.
    
    ofst - offset to add to start of each token (useful for nesting)
    
    tokens - List of Tokens to be added. This is done so that the caller creates the appropriate List implementation and size. The parse method just adds to the list