/* ****************************************************************************
  This file is part of KBabel

  Copyright (C) 2002 by Stanislav Visnovsky
  
  based on code of Matthias Kiefer <matthias.kiefer@gmx.de> and 
   Andrea Rizzi <rizzi@kde.org>

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**************************************************************************** */
#ifndef _ARG_EXTRACTOR_H_
#define _ARG_EXTRACTOR_H_

#include <tqptrlist.h>
#include <tqstring.h>
#include <tqstringlist.h>
#include <tqvaluelist.h>
#include <tqregexp.h>

#include "regexpextractor.h"

namespace KBabel
{

/**
 * class to extract arguments from a string
 * @author Stanislav Visnovsky <visnovsky@kde.org>
 * @author Andrea Rizzi <rizzi@kde.org>
 */
class ArgExtractor : public RegExpExtractor
{

public:
  /**
   * Create an argument extractor for "string"
   */ 
  ArgExtractor(TQString string=TQString());

  /**
   * Set a new list of tag regular expressions. It also
   * deletes the old tags.
   * @param list	a list of regular expressions
   */
  static void setArgExpressions(TQStringList* list);
  
protected:
  /**
   * @return the static list of args
   */
  virtual TQStringList *regExpList();

private: 
  static TQStringList *_argList; 
};

}


#endif
