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/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2003 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 
 * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jface.text;


/**
 * A region describes a certain range in an indexed text store.
 * Text stores are for example documents or strings. A region is 
 * defined by its offset into the text store and its length.<p>
 * A region is considered a value object. Its offset or length 
 * do not change over time. <p>
 * Clients may implement this interface or use the standard implementation
 * <code>Region</code>.
 */
public interface IRegion {
		
	/**
	 * Returns the length of the region.
	 *
	 * @return the length of the region
	 */
	int getLength();
	
	/**
	 * Returns the offset of the region.
	 *
	 * @return the offset of the region
	 */
	int getOffset();
}

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