/*
 * ProGuardCORE -- library to process Java bytecode.
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2002-2020 Guardsquare NV
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package proguard.util;

/**
 * This interface provides a method to create a {@link StringFunction} for a given
 * regular expression.
 *
 * @author Eric Lafortune
 */
public interface StringFunctionParser
{
    /**
     * Creates a StringFunction for the given regular expression.
     */
    public StringFunction parse(String regularExpression);
}
