/// <summary>
/// Copy this WordsCollection to another one
/// starting at the specified index position
/// </summary>
/// <param name="col" type="WordsCollection">
/// WordsCollection to be copied to
/// </param>
/// <param name="index" type="integer">
/// Starting index to begin copy operations
/// </param>
public void CopyTo(WordsCollection col, int index)
{
for (int i = index; i < List.Count; i++)
{
col.Add(this[i]);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Further processing of a string
/// </summary>
/// <param name="words">Collection that new word(s) will be added in</param>
/// <param name="prefix">prefix come with the string</param>
/// <param name="word">A string that may be a real word or have leading or tailing
/// special character</param>
/// <param name="suffix">suffix comes with the string.</param>
private static void processWord(WordsCollection words,
string prefix, string word, string suffix)
{
// the passed in word may have leading special
// characters such as '(', '"' etc or tailing
// punctuations. We need to sort this out.
int length = word.Length;
if (length == 1)
{
words.Add(new Word(word, prefix, suffix));
}
else if (!char.IsLetterOrDigit(word[0]))
{
// it is some kind of special character in the first place
// report it separately
words.Add(new Word(word[0].ToString(), prefix, ""));
words.Add(new Word(word.Substring(1), "", suffix));
return;
}
else if (char.IsPunctuation(word[length - 1]))
{
// there is a end punctuation
words.Add(new Word(word.Substring(0, length - 1), prefix, ""));
words.Add(new Word(word[length - 1].ToString(), "", suffix));
}
else
{
// it is a real word(hope so)
words.Add(new Word(word, prefix, suffix));
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Static method that parses the passed-in string into
/// Words collection
/// </summary>
/// <param name="s">String</param>
/// <returns>Words Collection</returns>
static public WordsCollection parse(string s)
{
int curPos = 0;
int prevPos;
string prefix = string.Empty;
string suffix = string.Empty;
string word = string.Empty;
WordsCollection words = new WordsCollection();
while (curPos < s.Length)
{
// eat the leading or tailing white spaces
prevPos = curPos;
while (curPos < s.Length &&
(char.IsControl(s[curPos]) ||
char.IsWhiteSpace(s[curPos])))
{
curPos++;
}
prefix += s.Substring(prevPos, curPos - prevPos);
if (curPos == s.Length)
{
// it is possible that there are
// something in the prefix
if (prefix != string.Empty)
{
// report a empty word with prefix.
words.Add(new Word("", prefix, ""));
}
break;
}
// we have 3 different cases here,
// 1) if the string starts with '<', we assume
// that it is a html tag which will be put
// into prefix.
// 2) starts with '&', we need to check if it is
// " " or "&#xxx;". If it is the former,
// we treat it as prefix and if it is latter,
// we treat it as a word.
// 3) a string that may be a real word or a set
// of words separated by " " or may have
// leading special character or tailing
// punctuation.
//
// Another possible case that is too complicated
// or expensive to handle is that some special
// characters are embeded inside the word with
// no space separation
if (s[curPos] == '<')
{
// it is a html tag, consume it
// as prefix.
prevPos = curPos;
while (s[curPos] != '>' && curPos < s.Length)
{
curPos++;
}
prefix += s.Substring(prevPos, curPos - prevPos + 1);
if (curPos == s.Length)
{
// if we come to this point, it means
// the html tag is not closed. Anyway,
// we are not validating html, so just
// report a empty word with prefix.
words.Add(new Word("", prefix, ""));
break;
}
// curPos is pointing to '>', move
// it to next.
curPos++;
if (curPos == s.Length)
{
// the html tag is closed but nothing more
// behind, so report a empty word with prefix.
words.Add(new Word("", prefix, ""));
break;
}
continue;
}
else if (s[curPos] == '&')
{
prevPos = curPos;
// case for html whitespace
if (curPos + 6 < s.Length &&
s.Substring(prevPos, 6) == " ")
{
prefix += " ";
curPos += 6;
continue;
}
// case for special character like "{" etc
string pattern = @"&#[0-9]{3};";
Regex r = new Regex(pattern);
if (curPos + 6 < s.Length &&
r.IsMatch(s.Substring(prevPos, 6)))
{
words.Add(new Word(s.Substring(prevPos, 6), prefix, ""));
prefix = string.Empty;
curPos += 6;
continue;
}
// case for special character like "" etc
pattern = @"&#[0-9]{2};";
r = new Regex(pattern);
if (curPos + 5 < s.Length &&
r.IsMatch(s.Substring(prevPos, 5)))
{
words.Add(new Word(s.Substring(prevPos, 5), prefix, ""));
prefix = string.Empty;
curPos += 5;
continue;
}
// can't think of anything else that is special,
// have to treat it as a '&' leaded word. Hope
// it is just single '&' for and in meaning.
prevPos = curPos;
while (curPos < s.Length &&
!char.IsControl(s[curPos]) &&
!char.IsWhiteSpace(s[curPos]) &&
s[curPos] != '<')
{
curPos++;
}
word = s.Substring(prevPos, curPos - prevPos);
// eat the following witespace as suffix
prevPos = curPos;
while (curPos < s.Length &&
(char.IsControl(s[curPos]) ||
char.IsWhiteSpace(s[curPos])))
{
curPos++;
}
suffix += s.Substring(prevPos, curPos - prevPos);
words.Add(new Word(word, prefix, suffix));
prefix = string.Empty;
suffix = string.Empty;
}
else
{
// eat the word
prevPos = curPos;
while (curPos < s.Length &&
!char.IsControl(s[curPos]) &&
!char.IsWhiteSpace(s[curPos]) &&
s[curPos] != '<' &&
s[curPos] != '&')
{
curPos++;
}
word = s.Substring(prevPos, curPos - prevPos);
// if there are newlines or spaces follow
// the word, consume it as suffix
prevPos = curPos;
while (curPos < s.Length &&
(char.IsControl(s[curPos]) ||
char.IsWhiteSpace(s[curPos])))
{
curPos++;
}
suffix = s.Substring(prevPos, curPos - prevPos);
processWord(words, prefix, word, suffix);
prefix = string.Empty;
suffix = string.Empty;
}
}
return(words);
}