/*
**  Utilities.h
**
**  Copyright (c) 2004
**
**  Author: Yen-Ju  <yjchenx@hotmail.com>
**
**  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
**  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
**  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 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 General Public License for more details.
**
**  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
**  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
**  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
*/

#ifndef __Utilities__
#define __Utilities__

#include <Foundation/NSString.h>
#include <Foundation/NSDictionary.h>

@class Criterion;

/* if newPath == nil, return default one */
NSString *MyLibraryPath(NSString *newPath);

void addAvailableSubjectsIntoCriterion (Criterion *criterion);

/* Attributes */
NSDictionary *attributesFromFile (NSString *absolutePath);
  /* decode /xxx/yyy/type */
int orderOfAttributeKey (NSString *key);
NSString *categoryOfAttributeKey (NSString *key);
NSString *nameOfAttributeKey (NSString *key);
NSString *typeOfAttributeKey (NSString *key);
NSString *keyOfAttributes (int order, NSString *category, NSString *name, NSString *type);

/* Parse string into number and date */
typedef enum _RegExType {
  RegExStringType,
  RegExCalendarDateType,
  RegExIntegerType,
  RegExFloatNumberType
} RegExType;

typedef enum _RegExFloatNumber {
  RegExDotFloatNumber, // -0.99
  RegExCommaFloatNumber // -0,99
} RegExFloatNumber;

typedef enum _RegExDate {
  RegExMMDDYYYYDate,
  RegExDDMMYYYYDate,
  RegExYYYYMMDDDate
} RegExDate;

id objectFromRegExParsedString (NSString *string, RegExFloatNumber number, RegExDate date, RegExType *type);

#endif /* __Utilities */