RegexCapabilities (Lucene 3.6.2 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

JakartaRegexpCapabilities, JavaUtilRegexCapabilities
```
public interface RegexCapabilities
```
Defines basic operations needed by RegexQuery for a regular expression implementation.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`compile(String pattern)`	Called by the constructor of `RegexTermEnum` allowing implementations to cache a compiled version of the regular expression pattern.
`boolean`	`match(String string)`
`String`	`prefix()`	A wise prefix implementation can reduce the term enumeration (and thus increase performance) of RegexQuery dramatically!

- Method Detail
  - compile
```
void compile(String pattern)
```
    Called by the constructor of RegexTermEnum allowing implementations to cache a compiled version of the regular expression pattern.
    
    Parameters:
    
    pattern - regular expression pattern
  - match
```
boolean match(String string)
```
    Parameters:
    
    string -
    
    Returns:
    
    true if string matches the pattern last passed to compile(java.lang.String).
  - prefix
```
String prefix()
```
    A wise prefix implementation can reduce the term enumeration (and thus increase performance) of RegexQuery dramatically!
    
    Returns:
    
    static non-regex prefix of the pattern last passed to compile(java.lang.String). May return null.