org.writersforge.catalan.text.filters
Class MultiLineCommentStripper

java.lang.Object
  org.writersforge.catalan.text.filters.MultiLineCommentStripper

All Implemented Interfaces:

ITextFilter

public class MultiLineCommentStripper

extends java.lang.Object

implements ITextFilter

Text filter which removes multi-line comments from the input text document.

Author:

jsheets

Constructor Summary

MultiLineCommentStripper(java.lang.String startToken, java.lang.String endToken)
Creates a new instance of MultiLineCommentStripper.

Method Summary

java.lang.String

filterText(java.lang.String text) Sends input document through a modifying filter.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

MultiLineCommentStripper

public MultiLineCommentStripper(java.lang.String startToken,
                                java.lang.String endToken)

Creates a new instance of MultiLineCommentStripper.

Parameters:

startToken - beginning token of the comment

endToken - ending token of the comment

Method Detail

filterText

public java.lang.String filterText(java.lang.String text)

Sends input document through a modifying filter.

This implementation removes multiple-line comments, from each starting comment token it finds, until the end of the ending comment token.

Specified by:

filterText in interface ITextFilter

Parameters:

text - input text document

Returns:

modified version of input document