[vtk-developers] vtkStringArray and vtkImageReader

[Michael Halle]

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>
> The generic solution is to add a "vtkFileNameGenerator", similar to 
> the way ITK does things.  For
> VTK I would build the different kinds of file name generation 
> (wildcard, numbered series,
> archetype) into one single class rather than create a class hierarchy. 
>  There would eventually be
> a vtkDICOMFileNameGenerator specifically for handling DICOM series.

Maybe not even a "vtkFileNameGenerator", but a "vtkNameGenerator".
The interface is generic enough to iterate over other
string-described resources.  Subclasses could look for actual
files and such.

Too general?

--Mike