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* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jface.text.rules;
/**
* Defines the interface by which <code>WordRule</code>
* determines whether a given character is valid as part
* of a word in the current context.
*/
public interface IWordDetector {
/**
* Returns whether the specified character is
* valid as the first character in a word.
*
* @param c the character to be checked
* @return <code>true</code> is a valid first character in a word, <code>false</code> otherwise
*/
boolean isWordStart(char c);
/**
* Returns whether the specified character is
* valid as a subsequent character in a word.
*
* @param c the character to be checked
* @return <code>true</code> if the character is a valid word part, <code>false</code> otherwise
*/
boolean isWordPart(char c);
}