# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Copyright (C) 2020 Oliver Tengler

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
"""

from abc import ABC,abstractmethod
from typing import Tuple, Iterable

class IStringMatcher(ABC):
    # Yields all matches in data. Each match is returned as the touple (position,length)
    @abstractmethod
    def matches(self, data: str) -> Iterable[Tuple[int,int]]:
        pass