org.openscience.cdk.io.formats
Interface IChemFormatMatcher

All Superinterfaces:

IChemFormat, IResourceFormat

All Known Implementing Classes:

ABINITFormat, Aces2Format, ADFFormat, CACheFormat, CDKOWLFormat, CIFFormat, CMLFormat, CrystClustFormat, CTXFormat, DaltonFormat, GamessFormat, Gaussian03Format, Gaussian90Format, Gaussian92Format, Gaussian94Format, Gaussian95Format, Gaussian98Format, GhemicalMMFormat, GhemicalSPMFormat, HINFormat, INChIFormat, INChIPlainTextFormat, JaguarFormat, MDLFormat, MDLRXNFormat, MDLRXNV3000Format, MDLV2000Format, MDLV3000Format, Mol2Format, MOPAC2002Format, MOPAC7Format, MOPAC93Format, MOPAC97Format, MoSSOutputFormat, NWChemFormat, PDBFormat, PMPFormat, PubChemASNFormat, PubChemCompoundsXMLFormat, PubChemCompoundXMLFormat, PubChemSubstancesASNFormat, PubChemSubstancesXMLFormat, PubChemSubstanceXMLFormat, QChemFormat, RGroupQueryFormat, SDFFormat, ShelXFormat, SpartanFormat, VASPFormat, ZMatrixFormat

public interface IChemFormatMatcher
extends IChemFormat

This interface is used for classes that are able to match a certain chemical file format. For example: Chemical Markup Language, PDB etc.

Author:

Egon Willighagen

Created on:

2004-10-25

Belongs to CDK module:

ioformats

Source code:

HEAD

Method Summary

boolean

matches(int lineNumber, String line) Method that checks whether the given line is part of the format read by this reader.

Methods inherited from interface org.openscience.cdk.io.formats.IChemFormat

getReaderClassName, getRequiredDataFeatures, getSupportedDataFeatures, getWriterClassName

Methods inherited from interface org.openscience.cdk.io.formats.IResourceFormat

getFormatName, getMIMEType, getNameExtensions, getPreferredNameExtension, isXMLBased

Method Detail

matches

boolean matches(int lineNumber,
                String line)

Method that checks whether the given line is part of the format read by this reader.

Parameters:

lineNumber - number of the line

line - line in the file being checked

Returns:

true if the line is of a file format read by this reader