| Checks for long lines.
Rationale: Long lines are hard to read in printouts or if developers
have limited screen space for the source code, e.g. if the IDE displays
additional information like project tree, class hierarchy, etc.
Note: Support for the special handling of imports in CheckStyle Version 2
has been dropped as it is a special case of regexp: The user can set
the ignorePattern to "^import" and achieve the same effect.
The default maximum allowable line length is 80 characters. To change the
maximum, set property max.
To ignore lines in the check, set property ignorePattern to a regular
expression for the lines to ignore.
An example of how to configure the check is:
<module name="LineLength"/>
An example of how to configure the check to accept lines up to 120
characters long is:
<module name="LineLength">
<property name="max" value="120"/>
</module>
An example of how to configure the check to ignore lines that begin with
" * ", followed by just one word, such as within a Javadoc comment,
is:
<module name="LineLength">
<property name="ignorePattern" value="^ *\* *[^ ]+$"/>
</module>
author:
Lars Kühne | 