private boolean charIsSafe(char c){
		// There are two character classes that one could use as a delimiter.
		// The first would be the class that most characters are in.  These
		// are normally data.  The second is the class that the tab is usually in.
		return (zzcmap_instance[c] == ZZ_CMAP['a'] || zzcmap_instance[c] == ZZ_CMAP['\t']);
	}