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<h1 title="Interface IHeaderMatcher" class="title">Interface IHeaderMatcher</h1>
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<div class="type-signature"><span class="modifiers">public interface </span><span class="element-name type-name-label">IHeaderMatcher</span></div>
<div class="block">Performs explicit checks against a line from the header of a file. For
implementations that need to check multiple lines the implementation must
cache the earlier lines.</div>
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<div class="col-first even-row-color"><code>static interface&nbsp;</code></div>
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<div class="block">Get the identifier for this matcher.</div>
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<div class="col-first even-row-color method-summary-table method-summary-table-tab2 method-summary-table-tab3"><code>boolean</code></div>
<div class="col-second even-row-color method-summary-table method-summary-table-tab2 method-summary-table-tab3"><code><a href="#matches(org.apache.rat.analysis.IHeaders)" class="member-name-link">matches</a><wbr>(<a href="IHeaders.html" title="interface in org.apache.rat.analysis">IHeaders</a>&nbsp;headers)</code></div>
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<div class="block">Attempts to match text in the IHeaders instance.</div>
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<div class="block">Resets this state of this matcher to its initial state in preparation for
use with another document scan.</div>
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<div class="member-signature"><span class="return-type"><a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="external-link">String</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="element-name">getId</span>()</div>
<div class="block">Get the identifier for this matcher.
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All matchers must have unique identifiers
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<dt>Returns:</dt>
<dd>the identifier for this matcher.</dd>
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<h3>reset</h3>
<div class="member-signature"><span class="modifiers">default</span>&nbsp;<span class="return-type">void</span>&nbsp;<span class="element-name">reset</span>()</div>
<div class="block">Resets this state of this matcher to its initial state in preparation for
use with another document scan. In most cases this method does not need to
do anything.</div>
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<div class="member-signature"><span class="return-type">boolean</span>&nbsp;<span class="element-name">matches</span><wbr><span class="parameters">(<a href="IHeaders.html" title="interface in org.apache.rat.analysis">IHeaders</a>&nbsp;headers)</span></div>
<div class="block">Attempts to match text in the IHeaders instance.</div>
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<dt>Parameters:</dt>
<dd><code>headers</code> - the representations of the headers to check</dd>
<dt>Returns:</dt>
<dd><code>true</code> if the matcher matches the text, <code>false</code> otherwise.</dd>
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<div class="member-signature"><span class="modifiers">default</span>&nbsp;<span class="return-type"><a href="../config/parameters/Description.html" title="class in org.apache.rat.config.parameters">Description</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="element-name">getDescription</span>()</div>
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