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using System;

namespace Lucene.Net.Analysis
{
	
	/// <summary>A Tokenizer is a TokenStream whose input is a Reader.
	/// <p>
	/// This is an abstract class.
	/// </summary>
	
	public abstract class Tokenizer : TokenStream
	{
		/// <summary>The text source for this Tokenizer. </summary>
		protected internal System.IO.TextReader input;
		
		/// <summary>Construct a tokenizer with null input. </summary>
		protected internal Tokenizer()
		{
		}
		
		/// <summary>Construct a token stream processing the given input. </summary>
		protected internal Tokenizer(System.IO.TextReader input)
		{
			this.input = input;
		}
		
		/// <summary>By default, closes the input Reader. </summary>
		public override void  Close()
		{
			if (input != null)
			{
				input.Close();
			}
		}
	}
}