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+/*\r
+ * \r
+ * Copyright 2002-2004 The Ant-Contrib project\r
+ *\r
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");\r
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.\r
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at\r
+ *\r
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0\r
+ *\r
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software\r
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,\r
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.\r
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and\r
+ * limitations under the License.\r
+ */\r
+package net.sf.antcontrib.cpptasks.parser;\r
+/**\r
+ * An base class for objects that represent the state of an AbstractParser.\r
+ * \r
+ * @author CurtArnold\r
+ * @see AbstractParser\r
+ */\r
+public abstract class AbstractParserState {\r
+ private AbstractParser parser;\r
+ protected AbstractParserState(AbstractParser parser) {\r
+ if (parser == null) {\r
+ throw new NullPointerException("parser");\r
+ }\r
+ this.parser = parser;\r
+ }\r
+ /**\r
+ * Consume a character\r
+ * \r
+ * @return new state, may be null to ignore the rest of the line\r
+ */\r
+ public abstract AbstractParserState consume(char ch);\r
+ protected AbstractParser getParser() {\r
+ return parser;\r
+ }\r
+}\r