Class: Chronic::Pointer

Inherits:
Tag
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/chronic/pointer.rb

Instance Attribute Summary

Attributes inherited from Tag

#type

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Methods inherited from Tag

#initialize, #start=

Constructor Details

This class inherits a constructor from Chronic::Tag

Class Method Details

.scan(tokens, options) ⇒ Object

Scan an Array of Token objects and apply any necessary Pointer tags to each token.

tokens - An Array of tokens to scan. options - The Hash of options specified in Chronic::parse.

Returns an Array of tokens.



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# File 'lib/chronic/pointer.rb', line 11

def self.scan(tokens, options)
  tokens.each do |token|
    if t = scan_for_all(token) then token.tag(t) end
  end
end

.scan_for_all(token) ⇒ Object

token - The Token object we want to scan.

Returns a new Pointer object.



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# File 'lib/chronic/pointer.rb', line 20

def self.scan_for_all(token)
  scan_for token, self,
  {
    /\bpast\b/ => :past,
    /\b(?:future|in)\b/ => :future,
  }
end

Instance Method Details

#to_s ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/chronic/pointer.rb', line 28

def to_s
  'pointer-' << @type.to_s
end