## org.apache.lucene.analysis
Class LetterTokenizer

    java.lang.Object
      org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream
          org.apache.lucene.analysis.Tokenizer
              org.apache.lucene.analysis.CharTokenizer
                  org.apache.lucene.analysis.LetterTokenizer

Direct Known Subclasses:
  LowerCaseTokenizer

    public class LetterTokenizer

extends CharTokenizer

A LetterTokenizer is a tokenizer that divides text at non-letters. That's to say, it defines tokens as maximal strings of adjacent letters, as defined by java.lang.Character.isLetter() predicate. Note: this does a decent job for most European languages, but does a terrible job for some Asian languages, where words are not separated by spaces.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.Tokenizer
`input`

Constructor Summary
`LetterTokenizer(Reader in)` Construct a new LetterTokenizer.

Method Summary
`protected boolean` `isTokenChar(char c)` Collects only characters which satisfy `Character.isLetter(char)`.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.CharTokenizer
`next, normalize, reset`

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.Tokenizer
`close`

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream
`next, reset`

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Constructor Detail

### LetterTokenizer

    public LetterTokenizer(Reader in)

  Construct a new LetterTokenizer.

Method Detail

### isTokenChar

    protected boolean isTokenChar(char c)

  Collects only characters which satisfy `Character.isLetter(char)`.

  Specified by:
    `isTokenChar` in class `CharTokenizer`

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