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NAME

Plucene::Analysis::Tokenizer - base class for tokenizers

SYNOPSIS

        my $tokenizer = Plucene::Analysis::Tokenizer::Subclass
                ->new({ reader => $reader });

DESCRIPTION

This is an abstract base class for tokenizers.

A Tokenizer is a TokenStream whose input is a Reader.

METHODS

new

        my $tokenizer = Plucene::Analysis::Tokenizer::Subclass
                ->new({ reader => $reader });

This will create a new tokenizer.

next

This must be defined in a subclass

close

Close the input reader.