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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 2005 IBM Corporation and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.jface.text.rules;
+
+
+/**
+ * Defines the interface by which <code>WordRule</code>
+ * determines whether a given character is valid as part
+ * of a word in the current context.
+ */
+public interface IWordDetector {
+
+	/**
+	 * Returns whether the specified character is
+	 * valid as the first character in a word.
+	 *
+	 * @param c the character to be checked
+	 * @return <code>true</code> is a valid first character in a word, <code>false</code> otherwise
+	 */
+	boolean isWordStart(char c);
+
+	/**
+	 * Returns whether the specified character is
+	 * valid as a subsequent character in a word.
+	 *
+	 * @param c the character to be checked
+	 * @return <code>true</code> if the character is a valid word part, <code>false</code> otherwise
+	 */
+	boolean isWordPart(char c);
+}