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| * Copyright (c) 2000, 2003 IBM Corporation and others. |
| * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials |
| * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0 |
| * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html |
| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation |
| *******************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.jface.text; |
| |
| |
| /** |
| * A region describes a certain range in an indexed text store. |
| * Text stores are for example documents or strings. A region is |
| * defined by its offset into the text store and its length.<p> |
| * A region is considered a value object. Its offset or length |
| * do not change over time. <p> |
| * Clients may implement this interface or use the standard implementation |
| * <code>Region</code>. |
| */ |
| public interface IRegion { |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns the length of the region. |
| * |
| * @return the length of the region |
| */ |
| int getLength(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns the offset of the region. |
| * |
| * @return the offset of the region |
| */ |
| int getOffset(); |
| } |
