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+package org.apache.lucene.analysis.hunspell;
+
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+
+public class HunspellWord {
+
+ private final char flags[]; // sorted, can we represent more concisely?
+
+ /**
+ * Creates a new HunspellWord with no associated flags
+ */
+ public HunspellWord() {
+ flags = null;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Constructs a new HunspellWord with the given flags
+ *
+ * @param flags Flags to associate with the word
+ */
+ public HunspellWord(char[] flags) {
+ this.flags = flags;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Checks whether the word has the given flag associated with it
+ *
+ * @param flag Flag to check whether it is associated with the word
+ * @return {@code true} if the flag is associated, {@code false} otherwise
+ */
+ public boolean hasFlag(char flag) {
+ return flags != null && Arrays.binarySearch(flags, flag) >= 0;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the flags associated with the word
+ *
+ * @return Flags asssociated with the word
+ */
+ public char[] getFlags() {
+ return flags;
+ }
+}