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+/**********************************************************************
+ Copyright (c) 2000, 2002 IBM Corp. 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 implementation
+ www.phpeclipse.de
+ **********************************************************************/
+package net.sourceforge.phpeclipse.phpeditor.util;
+
+import net.sourceforge.phpdt.internal.compiler.parser.Scanner;
+
+import org.eclipse.jface.text.rules.IWordDetector;
+
+/**
+ * A PHP aware variable detector (i.e. a PHP identifier starting with a '$'
+ * character).
+ */
+public class PHPVariableDetector implements IWordDetector {
+
+ /*
+ * (non-Javadoc) Method declared on IWordDetector.
+ */
+ public boolean isWordPart(char character) {
+ return Scanner.isPHPIdentifierPart(character);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * (non-Javadoc) Method declared on IWordDetector.
+ */
+ public boolean isWordStart(char character) {
+ return character == '$';
+ }
+}