public Anchors(String value) throws IOException 
{
                             
        if (value == null) {
            throw new IOException("cannot process a null anchors string");
        }
        char[]   input   = value.trim().toCharArray();
        int      index   = 0;
        for (int j = 0; j <  _component_count; j++) {
            while (index <  input.length
                    && Character.isWhitespace(input[index])) {
                ++index;
            }
            if (index == input.length) {
                throw new IOException("insufficient anchors in string");
            }
            int tailIndex = index;
            while (tailIndex <  input.length
                    && !Character.isWhitespace(input[tailIndex])) {
                ++tailIndex;
            }
            _components[j] = NumericConverter.extractInteger(new String(input,
                    index, tailIndex - index), _validator).intValue();
            index = tailIndex;
        }
        if (new String(input, index, input.length - index).trim().length() != 0) {
            throw new IOException("Too much data in string for "
                                  + _component_count + " anchors");
        }
}

construct the Anchors object

Parameters:

value - the string containing the anchor values

Throws:

IOException - if the string is badly formed

exception: IOException - if the string is badly formed

 public int[] getComponents() 
{
        return _components;
}