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+/* *******************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 1999-2001 Xerox Corporation, 
+ *               2002 Palo Alto Research Center, Incorporated (PARC).
+ * All rights reserved. 
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available 
+ * under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0 
+ * which accompanies this distribution and is available at 
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html 
+ *  
+ * Contributors: 
+ *     Xerox/PARC     initial implementation 
+ * ******************************************************************/
+
+package org.aspectj.testing.compare;
+
+import java.util.Vector;
+
+/** Generalize regular expression interface (to avoid binding to regexp provider)*/
+public interface Regexp {
+    /** @return the substrings matched in argument by this regular expression */
+    public Vector getGroups(String argument);
+
+    /** @return true if argument is matched by this regular expression */
+    public boolean matches(String argument);
+
+    /** 
+     * Set pattern used in this regular expression.
+     * May throw Exception if the pattern can be determined to be illegal 
+     * during initialization.
+     * @throws Exception if pattern is illegal
+     */
+    public void setPattern(String pattern) throws Exception;
+
+    /** 
+     * @return a string representaion of the pattern 
+     * (may not be legal or the input) 
+     */
+    public String getPattern() ;
+}
+