Class LowerCaseTokenizer

All Implemented Interfaces:
Closeable, AutoCloseable

public final class LowerCaseTokenizer extends LetterTokenizer
LowerCaseTokenizer performs the function of LetterTokenizer and LowerCaseFilter together. It divides text at non-letters and converts them to lower case. While it is functionally equivalent to the combination of LetterTokenizer and LowerCaseFilter, there is a performance advantage to doing the two tasks at once, hence this (redundant) implementation.

Note: this does a decent job for most European languages, but does a terrible job for some Asian languages, where words are not separated by spaces.

You must specify the required Version compatibility when creating LowerCaseTokenizer:

  • As of 3.1, CharTokenizer uses an int based API to normalize and detect token characters. See CharTokenizer.isTokenChar(int) and CharTokenizer.normalize(int) for details.

  • Constructor Details

    • LowerCaseTokenizer

      public LowerCaseTokenizer(Version matchVersion, Reader in)
      Construct a new LowerCaseTokenizer.
      Parameters:
      matchVersion - Lucene version to match See
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      }
      in - the input to split up into tokens
    • LowerCaseTokenizer

      public LowerCaseTokenizer(Version matchVersion, AttributeSource.AttributeFactory factory, Reader in)
      Construct a new LowerCaseTokenizer using a given AttributeSource.AttributeFactory.
      Parameters:
      matchVersion - Lucene version to match See
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      }
      factory - the attribute factory to use for this Tokenizer
      in - the input to split up into tokens