## org.apache.lucene.analysis
Class LowerCaseTokenizer

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

    public final class LowerCaseTokenizer

extends LetterTokenizer

LowerCaseTokenizer performs the function of LetterTokenizer and LowerCaseFilter together. It divides text at non-letters and converts them to lower case. While it is functionally equivalent to the combination of LetterTokenizer and LowerCaseFilter, there is a performance advantage to doing the two tasks at once, hence this (redundant) implementation.

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
`LowerCaseTokenizer(Reader in)` Construct a new LowerCaseTokenizer.

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

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.LetterTokenizer
`isTokenChar`

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

### LowerCaseTokenizer

    public LowerCaseTokenizer(Reader in)

  Construct a new LowerCaseTokenizer.

Method Detail

### normalize

    protected char normalize(char c)

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

  Overrides:
    `normalize` in class `CharTokenizer`

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