Does this make sense for anything but removal filters? How would you
expect the inverse of a "replace foo by bar" filter to work?

Stefan

--- Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> An InverseFilterReader would do exactly the opposite
> of a specified FilterReader.  For example, the
> StripJavaComments FilterReader in Ant strips away Java
> comments.  An InverseFilterReader wrapping a
> StripJavaComments FilterReader would strip away
> everything BUT Java comments.  I think implementation
> might be any of tricky, slow, or memory-intensive, but
> the number of existing FilterReaders would be
> instantly doubled if this class were written.
> 
> -Matt
> 
> 
> --- Magesh Umasankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Matt Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 
> > 
> > > Nice thought here--why not adapt the various
> > angles of
> > > Jakarta ORO as FilterReaders?  Another class I
> > have
> > > thought of writing for quite some time, but whose
> > > implementation would be quite tricky, is an
> > > InverseFilterReader which would perform the
> > opposite
> > > of a contained FilterReader.  
> > 
> > I don't quite follow - will you please expand
> > on what you propose as an InverseFilterReader?
> > 
> > > 
> > > -Matt
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Magesh
> > 
> > 
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