making edit keys actualy edit?

Say I have a JTextArea and I insert some some string and then another string that contains some edit keys (like backspace). Is there a way to make it so that those edit keys do what they are supposed to without me parsing the string manually?

example:

string1="hello world!"

string2="<backspace>?"

insert string1

insert string2

result = "hello world?"

[400 byte] By [forumusera] at [2007-11-27 5:55:09]