// You should consider a SectionIndex type for findsection, findtag and findbrackets.
//public static string CutToSection(this string html,
//public static StringIndex FindSection(this string html, string start, string end, bool CutSearch)
//{
// throw new NotImplementedException();
//}
/// <summary>
/// Gets the first instance of a tag (such as <div blah blah ></div>) in a string.
/// The tag can contain other tags.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="html">The string in which the tag should be located.</param>
/// <param name="tag">The name of the tag to locate (eg. "div" for <div></div>)</param>
/// <param name="removeTag">true, if tag start/end should be removed from the return value; otherwise, false.</param>
/// <returns>A <see cref="String"/> containing the tag and its contents.</returns>
public static string CutToTag(this string html, string tag, bool removeTag)
{
StringIndex index = FindTag(html, tag, removeTag);
if (index == StringIndex.Empty)
{
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("The provided tag could not be found.");
}
else
{
return(html.Substring(index.First, index.Length));
}
}
private static string cutToBrackets(this string html, char first, char last, bool CutBrackets)
{
StringIndex index = findBrackets(html, first, last, !CutBrackets);
if (index.IsEmpty)
{
return(string.Empty);
}
else
{
return(html.Substring(index.First, index.Length));
}
}
public StringParser CutToBrackets(char first, char last, bool CutBrackets)
{
StringIndex index = FindBrackets(first, last, !CutBrackets);
if (index.IsEmpty)
{
return(new StringParser(string.Empty));
}
else
{
return(new StringParser(this.html.Substring(index.First, index.Length)));
}
/*
* int start = this.html.IndexOf(first);
* int offset = start + 1;
* int tagsOpen = 1;
*
* int fStart = -1, fEnd = -1;
*
* if (start == -1)
* return new StringParser(string.Empty);
*
* while (tagsOpen > 0)
* {
* fStart = this.html.IndexOf(first, offset);
* fEnd = this.html.IndexOf(last, offset);
*
* if (fStart == -1 && fEnd == -1)
* return new StringParser(string.Empty);
*
* if (smallestIndex(fStart, fEnd) == fStart)
* {
* offset = fStart + 1;
* tagsOpen++;
* }
* else
* {
* offset = fEnd + 1;
* tagsOpen--;
* }
* }
* if (CutBrackets)
* return new StringParser(html.Substring(start + 1, fEnd - 1));
* else
* return new StringParser(html.Substring(start, fEnd - start + 1));*/
}
