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* Copyright (c) 2000, 2005 IBM Corporation and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jface.text;
/**
* Describes a region of an indexed text store such as a document or a string.
* The region consists of offset, length, and type. The region type is defined
* as a string.
* <p>
* A typed region can, e.g., be used to described document partitions.</p>
* <p>
* Clients may implement this interface or use the standard implementation
* {@link org.eclipse.jface.text.TypedRegion}.</p>
*/
public interface ITypedRegion extends IRegion {
/**
* Returns the content type of the region.
*
* @return the content type of the region
*/
String getType();
}