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package org.netbeans.editor;

/** Process the batches of the text in the document. This interface
* can be passed to the BaseDocument.processText() and this method
* then calls the processTextBatch() to process the text batches.
*
* @author Miloslav Metelka
* @version 1.00
*/


public interface TextBatchProcessor {

    /** Process one batch of the text.
    * @doc document to work with
    * @startPos starting position of the batch
    * @endPos ending position of the batch
    * @lastBatch whether this batch is the last one in the text area that
    *   is searched.
    * @return non-negative number to stop the batch processing. The returned
    *   value is remembered and returned from BaseDocument.processText().
    *   Negative value means to continue with the next batch.
    */
    public int processTextBatch(BaseDocument doc, int startPos, int endPos,
                                boolean lastBatch);

}