# Mutli-Character Filter

## Description

Filter which provides access to its controlled sequence or sequences via a socket-like interface rather than one character at a time. The difference between a Filter which is Mutli-Character and one which is not is reflected in the specifications of the various Filter refinements. See, e.g., InputFilter and OutputFilter.

## Refinement of

Filter.

## Associated Types

Same as Filter, with the following additional requirements:

Category | A type convertible to filter_tag and to multichar_tag

## Valid Expressions / Semantics

Same as Filter.

## Models

- The compression and decompression filters
- `basic_regex_filter`
- `aggregate_filter`
- `symmetric_filter`

Revised 02 Feb 2008

© Copyright Jonathan Turkanis, 2004

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