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      3 /*
      4 ***************************************************************************
      5 *   Copyright (C) 1999-2016 International Business Machines Corporation   *
      6 *   and others. All rights reserved.                                      *
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      8 
      9 **********************************************************************
     10 *   Date        Name        Description
     11 *   10/22/99    alan        Creation.
     12 *   11/11/99    rgillam     Complete port from Java.
     13 **********************************************************************
     14 */
     15 
     16 #ifndef RBBI_H
     17 #define RBBI_H
     18 
     19 #include "unicode/utypes.h"
     20 
     21 /**
     22  * \file
     23  * \brief C++ API: Rule Based Break Iterator
     24  */
     25 
     26 #if !UCONFIG_NO_BREAK_ITERATION
     27 
     28 #include "unicode/brkiter.h"
     29 #include "unicode/udata.h"
     30 #include "unicode/parseerr.h"
     31 #include "unicode/schriter.h"
     32 #include "unicode/uchriter.h"
     33 
     34 U_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
     35 
     36 /** @internal */
     37 class  LanguageBreakEngine;
     38 struct RBBIDataHeader;
     39 class  RBBIDataWrapper;
     40 class  UnhandledEngine;
     41 class  UStack;
     42 
     43 /**
     44  *
     45  * A subclass of BreakIterator whose behavior is specified using a list of rules.
     46  * <p>Instances of this class are most commonly created by the factory methods of
     47  *  BreakIterator::createWordInstance(), BreakIterator::createLineInstance(), etc.,
     48  *  and then used via the abstract API in class BreakIterator</p>
     49  *
     50  * <p>See the ICU User Guide for information on Break Iterator Rules.</p>
     51  *
     52  * <p>This class is not intended to be subclassed.</p>
     53  */
     54 class U_COMMON_API RuleBasedBreakIterator /*U_FINAL*/ : public BreakIterator {
     55 
     56 private:
     57     /**
     58      * The UText through which this BreakIterator accesses the text
     59      * @internal
     60      */
     61     UText  *fText;
     62 
     63     /**
     64      *   A character iterator that refers to the same text as the UText, above.
     65      *   Only included for compatibility with old API, which was based on CharacterIterators.
     66      *   Value may be adopted from outside, or one of fSCharIter or fDCharIter, below.
     67      */
     68     CharacterIterator  *fCharIter;
     69 
     70     /**
     71      *   When the input text is provided by a UnicodeString, this will point to
     72      *    a characterIterator that wraps that data.  Needed only for the
     73      *    implementation of getText(), a backwards compatibility issue.
     74      */
     75     StringCharacterIterator *fSCharIter;
     76 
     77     /**
     78      *  When the input text is provided by a UText, this
     79      *    dummy CharacterIterator over an empty string will
     80      *    be returned from getText()
     81      */
     82     UCharCharacterIterator *fDCharIter;
     83 
     84     /**
     85      * The rule data for this BreakIterator instance
     86      * @internal
     87      */
     88     RBBIDataWrapper    *fData;
     89 
     90     /**
     91      *  The iteration state - current position, rule status for the current position,
     92      *                        and whether the iterator ran off the end, yielding UBRK_DONE.
     93      *                        Current position is pinned to be 0 < position <= text.length.
     94      *                        Current position is always set to a boundary.
     95      *  @internal
     96     */
     97     /**
     98       * The current  position of the iterator. Pinned, 0 < fPosition <= text.length.
     99       * Never has the value UBRK_DONE (-1).
    100       */
    101     int32_t         fPosition;
    102 
    103     /**
    104       * TODO:
    105       */
    106     int32_t         fRuleStatusIndex;
    107 
    108     /**
    109       * True when iteration has run off the end, and iterator functions should return UBRK_DONE.
    110       */
    111     UBool           fDone;
    112 
    113     /**
    114      *   Cache of previously determined boundary positions.
    115      */
    116   public:    // TODO: debug, return to private.
    117     class BreakCache;
    118     BreakCache         *fBreakCache;
    119   private:
    120     /**
    121      * Counter for the number of characters encountered with the "dictionary"
    122      *   flag set.
    123      * @internal
    124      */
    125     uint32_t            fDictionaryCharCount;
    126 
    127     /**
    128      *  Cache of boundary positions within a region of text that has been
    129      *  sub-divided by dictionary based breaking.
    130      */
    131     class DictionaryCache;
    132     DictionaryCache *fDictionaryCache;
    133 
    134     /**
    135      *
    136      * If present, UStack of LanguageBreakEngine objects that might handle
    137      * dictionary characters. Searched from top to bottom to find an object to
    138      * handle a given character.
    139      * @internal
    140      */
    141     UStack              *fLanguageBreakEngines;
    142 
    143     /**
    144      *
    145      * If present, the special LanguageBreakEngine used for handling
    146      * characters that are in the dictionary set, but not handled by any
    147      * LangugageBreakEngine.
    148      * @internal
    149      */
    150     UnhandledEngine     *fUnhandledBreakEngine;
    151 
    152     /**
    153      *
    154      * The type of the break iterator, or -1 if it has not been set.
    155      * @internal
    156      */
    157     int32_t             fBreakType;
    158 
    159     //=======================================================================
    160     // constructors
    161     //=======================================================================
    162 
    163     /**
    164      * Constructor from a flattened set of RBBI data in malloced memory.
    165      *             RulesBasedBreakIterators built from a custom set of rules
    166      *             are created via this constructor; the rules are compiled
    167      *             into memory, then the break iterator is constructed here.
    168      *
    169      *             The break iterator adopts the memory, and will
    170      *             free it when done.
    171      * @internal
    172      */
    173     RuleBasedBreakIterator(RBBIDataHeader* data, UErrorCode &status);
    174 
    175     /** @internal */
    176     friend class RBBIRuleBuilder;
    177     /** @internal */
    178     friend class BreakIterator;
    179 
    180 public:
    181 
    182     /** Default constructor.  Creates an empty shell of an iterator, with no
    183      *  rules or text to iterate over.   Object can subsequently be assigned to.
    184      *  @stable ICU 2.2
    185      */
    186     RuleBasedBreakIterator();
    187 
    188     /**
    189      * Copy constructor.  Will produce a break iterator with the same behavior,
    190      * and which iterates over the same text, as the one passed in.
    191      * @param that The RuleBasedBreakIterator passed to be copied
    192      * @stable ICU 2.0
    193      */
    194     RuleBasedBreakIterator(const RuleBasedBreakIterator& that);
    195 
    196     /**
    197      * Construct a RuleBasedBreakIterator from a set of rules supplied as a string.
    198      * @param rules The break rules to be used.
    199      * @param parseError  In the event of a syntax error in the rules, provides the location
    200      *                    within the rules of the problem.
    201      * @param status Information on any errors encountered.
    202      * @stable ICU 2.2
    203      */
    204     RuleBasedBreakIterator( const UnicodeString    &rules,
    205                              UParseError           &parseError,
    206                              UErrorCode            &status);
    207 
    208     /**
    209      * Contruct a RuleBasedBreakIterator from a set of precompiled binary rules.
    210      * Binary rules are obtained from RulesBasedBreakIterator::getBinaryRules().
    211      * Construction of a break iterator in this way is substantially faster than
    212      * constuction from source rules.
    213      *
    214      * Ownership of the storage containing the compiled rules remains with the
    215      * caller of this function.  The compiled rules must not be  modified or
    216      * deleted during the life of the break iterator.
    217      *
    218      * The compiled rules are not compatible across different major versions of ICU.
    219      * The compiled rules are comaptible only between machines with the same
    220      * byte ordering (little or big endian) and the same base character set family
    221      * (ASCII or EBCDIC).
    222      *
    223      * @see #getBinaryRules
    224      * @param compiledRules A pointer to the compiled break rules to be used.
    225      * @param ruleLength The length of the compiled break rules, in bytes.  This
    226      *   corresponds to the length value produced by getBinaryRules().
    227      * @param status Information on any errors encountered, including invalid
    228      *   binary rules.
    229      * @stable ICU 4.8
    230      */
    231     RuleBasedBreakIterator(const uint8_t *compiledRules,
    232                            uint32_t       ruleLength,
    233                            UErrorCode    &status);
    234 
    235     /**
    236      * This constructor uses the udata interface to create a BreakIterator
    237      * whose internal tables live in a memory-mapped file.  "image" is an
    238      * ICU UDataMemory handle for the pre-compiled break iterator tables.
    239      * @param image handle to the memory image for the break iterator data.
    240      *        Ownership of the UDataMemory handle passes to the Break Iterator,
    241      *        which will be responsible for closing it when it is no longer needed.
    242      * @param status Information on any errors encountered.
    243      * @see udata_open
    244      * @see #getBinaryRules
    245      * @stable ICU 2.8
    246      */
    247     RuleBasedBreakIterator(UDataMemory* image, UErrorCode &status);
    248 
    249     /**
    250      * Destructor
    251      *  @stable ICU 2.0
    252      */
    253     virtual ~RuleBasedBreakIterator();
    254 
    255     /**
    256      * Assignment operator.  Sets this iterator to have the same behavior,
    257      * and iterate over the same text, as the one passed in.
    258      * @param that The RuleBasedBreakItertor passed in
    259      * @return the newly created RuleBasedBreakIterator
    260      *  @stable ICU 2.0
    261      */
    262     RuleBasedBreakIterator& operator=(const RuleBasedBreakIterator& that);
    263 
    264     /**
    265      * Equality operator.  Returns TRUE if both BreakIterators are of the
    266      * same class, have the same behavior, and iterate over the same text.
    267      * @param that The BreakIterator to be compared for equality
    268      * @return TRUE if both BreakIterators are of the
    269      * same class, have the same behavior, and iterate over the same text.
    270      *  @stable ICU 2.0
    271      */
    272     virtual UBool operator==(const BreakIterator& that) const;
    273 
    274     /**
    275      * Not-equal operator.  If operator== returns TRUE, this returns FALSE,
    276      * and vice versa.
    277      * @param that The BreakIterator to be compared for inequality
    278      * @return TRUE if both BreakIterators are not same.
    279      *  @stable ICU 2.0
    280      */
    281     UBool operator!=(const BreakIterator& that) const;
    282 
    283     /**
    284      * Returns a newly-constructed RuleBasedBreakIterator with the same
    285      * behavior, and iterating over the same text, as this one.
    286      * Differs from the copy constructor in that it is polymorphic, and
    287      * will correctly clone (copy) a derived class.
    288      * clone() is thread safe.  Multiple threads may simultaeneously
    289      * clone the same source break iterator.
    290      * @return a newly-constructed RuleBasedBreakIterator
    291      * @stable ICU 2.0
    292      */
    293     virtual BreakIterator* clone() const;
    294 
    295     /**
    296      * Compute a hash code for this BreakIterator
    297      * @return A hash code
    298      *  @stable ICU 2.0
    299      */
    300     virtual int32_t hashCode(void) const;
    301 
    302     /**
    303      * Returns the description used to create this iterator
    304      * @return the description used to create this iterator
    305      *  @stable ICU 2.0
    306      */
    307     virtual const UnicodeString& getRules(void) const;
    308 
    309     //=======================================================================
    310     // BreakIterator overrides
    311     //=======================================================================
    312 
    313     /**
    314      * <p>
    315      * Return a CharacterIterator over the text being analyzed.
    316      * The returned character iterator is owned by the break iterator, and must
    317      * not be deleted by the caller.  Repeated calls to this function may
    318      * return the same CharacterIterator.
    319      * </p>
    320      * <p>
    321      * The returned character iterator must not be used concurrently with
    322      * the break iterator.  If concurrent operation is needed, clone the
    323      * returned character iterator first and operate on the clone.
    324      * </p>
    325      * <p>
    326      * When the break iterator is operating on text supplied via a UText,
    327      * this function will fail.  Lacking any way to signal failures, it
    328      * returns an CharacterIterator containing no text.
    329      * The function getUText() provides similar functionality,
    330      * is reliable, and is more efficient.
    331      * </p>
    332      *
    333      * TODO:  deprecate this function?
    334      *
    335      * @return An iterator over the text being analyzed.
    336      * @stable ICU 2.0
    337      */
    338     virtual  CharacterIterator& getText(void) const;
    339 
    340 
    341     /**
    342       *  Get a UText for the text being analyzed.
    343       *  The returned UText is a shallow clone of the UText used internally
    344       *  by the break iterator implementation.  It can safely be used to
    345       *  access the text without impacting any break iterator operations,
    346       *  but the underlying text itself must not be altered.
    347       *
    348       * @param fillIn A UText to be filled in.  If NULL, a new UText will be
    349       *           allocated to hold the result.
    350       * @param status receives any error codes.
    351       * @return   The current UText for this break iterator.  If an input
    352       *           UText was provided, it will always be returned.
    353       * @stable ICU 3.4
    354       */
    355      virtual UText *getUText(UText *fillIn, UErrorCode &status) const;
    356 
    357     /**
    358      * Set the iterator to analyze a new piece of text.  This function resets
    359      * the current iteration position to the beginning of the text.
    360      * @param newText An iterator over the text to analyze.  The BreakIterator
    361      * takes ownership of the character iterator.  The caller MUST NOT delete it!
    362      *  @stable ICU 2.0
    363      */
    364     virtual void adoptText(CharacterIterator* newText);
    365 
    366     /**
    367      * Set the iterator to analyze a new piece of text.  This function resets
    368      * the current iteration position to the beginning of the text.
    369      *
    370      * The BreakIterator will retain a reference to the supplied string.
    371      * The caller must not modify or delete the text while the BreakIterator
    372      * retains the reference.
    373      *
    374      * @param newText The text to analyze.
    375      *  @stable ICU 2.0
    376      */
    377     virtual void setText(const UnicodeString& newText);
    378 
    379     /**
    380      * Reset the break iterator to operate over the text represented by
    381      * the UText.  The iterator position is reset to the start.
    382      *
    383      * This function makes a shallow clone of the supplied UText.  This means
    384      * that the caller is free to immediately close or otherwise reuse the
    385      * Utext that was passed as a parameter, but that the underlying text itself
    386      * must not be altered while being referenced by the break iterator.
    387      *
    388      * @param text    The UText used to change the text.
    389      * @param status  Receives any error codes.
    390      * @stable ICU 3.4
    391      */
    392     virtual void  setText(UText *text, UErrorCode &status);
    393 
    394     /**
    395      * Sets the current iteration position to the beginning of the text, position zero.
    396      * @return The offset of the beginning of the text, zero.
    397      *  @stable ICU 2.0
    398      */
    399     virtual int32_t first(void);
    400 
    401     /**
    402      * Sets the current iteration position to the end of the text.
    403      * @return The text's past-the-end offset.
    404      *  @stable ICU 2.0
    405      */
    406     virtual int32_t last(void);
    407 
    408     /**
    409      * Advances the iterator either forward or backward the specified number of steps.
    410      * Negative values move backward, and positive values move forward.  This is
    411      * equivalent to repeatedly calling next() or previous().
    412      * @param n The number of steps to move.  The sign indicates the direction
    413      * (negative is backwards, and positive is forwards).
    414      * @return The character offset of the boundary position n boundaries away from
    415      * the current one.
    416      *  @stable ICU 2.0
    417      */
    418     virtual int32_t next(int32_t n);
    419 
    420     /**
    421      * Advances the iterator to the next boundary position.
    422      * @return The position of the first boundary after this one.
    423      *  @stable ICU 2.0
    424      */
    425     virtual int32_t next(void);
    426 
    427     /**
    428      * Moves the iterator backwards, to the last boundary preceding this one.
    429      * @return The position of the last boundary position preceding this one.
    430      *  @stable ICU 2.0
    431      */
    432     virtual int32_t previous(void);
    433 
    434     /**
    435      * Sets the iterator to refer to the first boundary position following
    436      * the specified position.
    437      * @param offset The position from which to begin searching for a break position.
    438      * @return The position of the first break after the current position.
    439      *  @stable ICU 2.0
    440      */
    441     virtual int32_t following(int32_t offset);
    442 
    443     /**
    444      * Sets the iterator to refer to the last boundary position before the
    445      * specified position.
    446      * @param offset The position to begin searching for a break from.
    447      * @return The position of the last boundary before the starting position.
    448      *  @stable ICU 2.0
    449      */
    450     virtual int32_t preceding(int32_t offset);
    451 
    452     /**
    453      * Returns true if the specfied position is a boundary position.  As a side
    454      * effect, leaves the iterator pointing to the first boundary position at
    455      * or after "offset".
    456      * @param offset the offset to check.
    457      * @return True if "offset" is a boundary position.
    458      *  @stable ICU 2.0
    459      */
    460     virtual UBool isBoundary(int32_t offset);
    461 
    462     /**
    463      * Returns the current iteration position. Note that UBRK_DONE is never
    464      * returned from this function; if iteration has run to the end of a
    465      * string, current() will return the length of the string while
    466      * next() will return UBRK_DONE).
    467      * @return The current iteration position.
    468      * @stable ICU 2.0
    469      */
    470     virtual int32_t current(void) const;
    471 
    472 
    473     /**
    474      * Return the status tag from the break rule that determined the most recently
    475      * returned break position.  For break rules that do not specify a
    476      * status, a default value of 0 is returned.  If more than one break rule
    477      * would cause a boundary to be located at some position in the text,
    478      * the numerically largest of the applicable status values is returned.
    479      * <p>
    480      * Of the standard types of ICU break iterators, only word break and
    481      * line break provide status values.  The values are defined in
    482      * the header file ubrk.h.  For Word breaks, the status allows distinguishing between words
    483      * that contain alphabetic letters, "words" that appear to be numbers,
    484      * punctuation and spaces, words containing ideographic characters, and
    485      * more.  For Line Break, the status distinguishes between hard (mandatory) breaks
    486      * and soft (potential) break positions.
    487      * <p>
    488      * <code>getRuleStatus()</code> can be called after obtaining a boundary
    489      * position from <code>next()</code>, <code>previous()</code>, or
    490      * any other break iterator functions that returns a boundary position.
    491      * <p>
    492      * When creating custom break rules, one is free to define whatever
    493      * status values may be convenient for the application.
    494      * <p>
    495      * Note: this function is not thread safe.  It should not have been
    496      *       declared const, and the const remains only for compatibility
    497      *       reasons.  (The function is logically const, but not bit-wise const).
    498      *   TODO: check this. Probably thread safe now.
    499      * <p>
    500      * @return the status from the break rule that determined the most recently
    501      * returned break position.
    502      *
    503      * @see UWordBreak
    504      * @stable ICU 2.2
    505      */
    506     virtual int32_t getRuleStatus() const;
    507 
    508    /**
    509     * Get the status (tag) values from the break rule(s) that determined the most
    510     * recently returned break position.
    511     * <p>
    512     * The returned status value(s) are stored into an array provided by the caller.
    513     * The values are stored in sorted (ascending) order.
    514     * If the capacity of the output array is insufficient to hold the data,
    515     *  the output will be truncated to the available length, and a
    516     *  U_BUFFER_OVERFLOW_ERROR will be signaled.
    517     *
    518     * @param fillInVec an array to be filled in with the status values.
    519     * @param capacity  the length of the supplied vector.  A length of zero causes
    520     *                  the function to return the number of status values, in the
    521     *                  normal way, without attemtping to store any values.
    522     * @param status    receives error codes.
    523     * @return          The number of rule status values from rules that determined
    524     *                  the most recent boundary returned by the break iterator.
    525     *                  In the event of a U_BUFFER_OVERFLOW_ERROR, the return value
    526     *                  is the total number of status values that were available,
    527     *                  not the reduced number that were actually returned.
    528     * @see getRuleStatus
    529     * @stable ICU 3.0
    530     */
    531     virtual int32_t getRuleStatusVec(int32_t *fillInVec, int32_t capacity, UErrorCode &status);
    532 
    533     /**
    534      * Returns a unique class ID POLYMORPHICALLY.  Pure virtual override.
    535      * This method is to implement a simple version of RTTI, since not all
    536      * C++ compilers support genuine RTTI.  Polymorphic operator==() and
    537      * clone() methods call this method.
    538      *
    539      * @return          The class ID for this object. All objects of a
    540      *                  given class have the same class ID.  Objects of
    541      *                  other classes have different class IDs.
    542      * @stable ICU 2.0
    543      */
    544     virtual UClassID getDynamicClassID(void) const;
    545 
    546     /**
    547      * Returns the class ID for this class.  This is useful only for
    548      * comparing to a return value from getDynamicClassID().  For example:
    549      *
    550      *      Base* polymorphic_pointer = createPolymorphicObject();
    551      *      if (polymorphic_pointer->getDynamicClassID() ==
    552      *          Derived::getStaticClassID()) ...
    553      *
    554      * @return          The class ID for all objects of this class.
    555      * @stable ICU 2.0
    556      */
    557     static UClassID U_EXPORT2 getStaticClassID(void);
    558 
    559     /**
    560      * Deprecated functionality. Use clone() instead.
    561      *
    562      * Create a clone (copy) of this break iterator in memory provided
    563      *  by the caller.  The idea is to increase performance by avoiding
    564      *  a storage allocation.  Use of this functoin is NOT RECOMMENDED.
    565      *  Performance gains are minimal, and correct buffer management is
    566      *  tricky.  Use clone() instead.
    567      *
    568      * @param stackBuffer  The pointer to the memory into which the cloned object
    569      *                     should be placed.  If NULL,  allocate heap memory
    570      *                     for the cloned object.
    571      * @param BufferSize   The size of the buffer.  If zero, return the required
    572      *                     buffer size, but do not clone the object.  If the
    573      *                     size was too small (but not zero), allocate heap
    574      *                     storage for the cloned object.
    575      *
    576      * @param status       Error status.  U_SAFECLONE_ALLOCATED_WARNING will be
    577      *                     returned if the the provided buffer was too small, and
    578      *                     the clone was therefore put on the heap.
    579      *
    580      * @return  Pointer to the clone object.  This may differ from the stackBuffer
    581      *          address if the byte alignment of the stack buffer was not suitable
    582      *          or if the stackBuffer was too small to hold the clone.
    583      * @deprecated ICU 52. Use clone() instead.
    584      */
    585     virtual BreakIterator *  createBufferClone(void *stackBuffer,
    586                                                int32_t &BufferSize,
    587                                                UErrorCode &status);
    588 
    589 
    590     /**
    591      * Return the binary form of compiled break rules,
    592      * which can then be used to create a new break iterator at some
    593      * time in the future.  Creating a break iterator from pre-compiled rules
    594      * is much faster than building one from the source form of the
    595      * break rules.
    596      *
    597      * The binary data can only be used with the same version of ICU
    598      *  and on the same platform type (processor endian-ness)
    599      *
    600      * @param length Returns the length of the binary data.  (Out paramter.)
    601      *
    602      * @return   A pointer to the binary (compiled) rule data.  The storage
    603      *           belongs to the RulesBasedBreakIterator object, not the
    604      *           caller, and must not be modified or deleted.
    605      * @stable ICU 4.8
    606      */
    607     virtual const uint8_t *getBinaryRules(uint32_t &length);
    608 
    609     /**
    610      *  Set the subject text string upon which the break iterator is operating
    611      *  without changing any other aspect of the matching state.
    612      *  The new and previous text strings must have the same content.
    613      *
    614      *  This function is intended for use in environments where ICU is operating on
    615      *  strings that may move around in memory.  It provides a mechanism for notifying
    616      *  ICU that the string has been relocated, and providing a new UText to access the
    617      *  string in its new position.
    618      *
    619      *  Note that the break iterator implementation never copies the underlying text
    620      *  of a string being processed, but always operates directly on the original text
    621      *  provided by the user. Refreshing simply drops the references to the old text
    622      *  and replaces them with references to the new.
    623      *
    624      *  Caution:  this function is normally used only by very specialized,
    625      *  system-level code.  One example use case is with garbage collection that moves
    626      *  the text in memory.
    627      *
    628      * @param input      The new (moved) text string.
    629      * @param status     Receives errors detected by this function.
    630      * @return           *this
    631      *
    632      * @stable ICU 49
    633      */
    634     virtual RuleBasedBreakIterator &refreshInputText(UText *input, UErrorCode &status);
    635 
    636 
    637 private:
    638     //=======================================================================
    639     // implementation
    640     //=======================================================================
    641     /**
    642      * Dumps caches and performs other actions associated with a complete change
    643      * in text or iteration position.
    644      * @internal
    645      */
    646     void reset(void);
    647 
    648     /**
    649       * Set the type of the break iterator.
    650       * @internal
    651       */
    652     void setBreakType(int32_t type);
    653 
    654     /**
    655       * Common initialization function, used by constructors and bufferClone.
    656       * @internal
    657       */
    658     void init(UErrorCode &status);
    659 
    660     /**
    661      * Iterate backwards from an arbitrary position in the input text using the Safe Reverse rules.
    662      * This locates a "Safe Position" from which the forward break rules
    663      * will operate correctly. A Safe Position is not necessarily a boundary itself.
    664      *
    665      * @param fromPosition the position in the input text to begin the iteration.
    666      * @internal
    667      */
    668     int32_t handlePrevious(int32_t fromPosition);
    669 
    670     /**
    671      * Find a rule-based boundary by running the state machine.
    672      * Input
    673      *    fPosition, the position in the text to begin from.
    674      * Output
    675      *    fPosition:           the boundary following the starting position.
    676      *    fDictionaryCharCount the number of dictionary characters encountered.
    677      *                         If > 0, the segment will be further subdivided
    678      *    fRuleStatusIndex     Info from the state table indicating which rules caused the boundary.
    679      *
    680      * @internal
    681      */
    682     int32_t handleNext();
    683 
    684 
    685     /**
    686      * This function returns the appropriate LanguageBreakEngine for a
    687      * given character c.
    688      * @param c         A character in the dictionary set
    689      * @internal
    690      */
    691     const LanguageBreakEngine *getLanguageBreakEngine(UChar32 c);
    692 
    693   public:
    694 #ifndef U_HIDE_INTERNAL_API
    695     /**
    696      *   Debugging function only.
    697      *   @internal
    698      */
    699      void dumpCache();
    700 #endif  /* U_HIDE_INTERNAL_API */
    701 };
    702 
    703 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    704 //
    705 //   Inline Functions Definitions ...
    706 //
    707 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    708 
    709 inline UBool RuleBasedBreakIterator::operator!=(const BreakIterator& that) const {
    710     return !operator==(that);
    711 }
    712 
    713 U_NAMESPACE_END
    714 
    715 #endif /* #if !UCONFIG_NO_BREAK_ITERATION */
    716 
    717 #endif
    718