Package org.apache.tools.ant.filters

## Class TokenFilter.DeleteCharacters

- java.lang.Object
- - org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectComponent
  - - org.apache.tools.ant.filters.TokenFilter.DeleteCharacters

All Implemented Interfaces:
  `java.lang.Cloneable`, `ChainableReader`, `TokenFilter.Filter`

Enclosing class:
  TokenFilter

    public static class TokenFilter.DeleteCharacters
    extends ProjectComponent
    implements TokenFilter.Filter, ChainableReader

Filter to delete characters

### Field Summary

### Fields inherited from class org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectComponent

`description, location, project`

### Constructor Summary

Constructors
`DeleteCharacters()`

### Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
`java.io.Reader` `chain​(java.io.Reader reader)` factory method to provide a reader that removes the characters from a reader as part of a filter chain
`java.lang.String` `filter​(java.lang.String string)` remove characters from a string
`void` `setChars​(java.lang.String deleteChars)` Set the list of characters to delete

### Methods inherited from class org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectComponent

`clone, getDescription, getLocation, getProject, log, log, setDescription, setLocation, setProject`

### Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

### Constructor Detail

#### DeleteCharacters

    public DeleteCharacters()

### Method Detail

#### setChars

    public void setChars​(java.lang.String deleteChars)

Set the list of characters to delete

Parameters:
  `deleteChars` - the list of characters

#### filter

    public java.lang.String filter​(java.lang.String string)

remove characters from a string

Specified by:
  `filter` in interface `TokenFilter.Filter`
Parameters:
  `string` - the string to remove the characters from
Returns:
  the converted string

#### chain

    public java.io.Reader chain​(java.io.Reader reader)

factory method to provide a reader that removes the characters from a reader as part of a filter chain

Specified by:
  `chain` in interface `ChainableReader`
Parameters:
  `reader` - the reader object
Returns:
  the chained reader object