/// <summary>
/// Checks to see if the person's ID is in the file of IDs of people that prefer Hebrew
/// </summary>
/// <param name="p">person who's prefernce you want to check</param>
/// <returns>true if person is not on the list, false otherwise</returns>
public static bool checkPreference(Person p)
{
if (hebPeopleS.Equals(""))
{
hebPeopleS = File.ReadAllText(hebPeople);
}
return !hebPeopleS.Contains(p.Id);
}
//extracts data from the report
public List<Person> FetchPeople()
{
List<Person> people = new List<Person>();
if (File.Exists(input))
{
string[] lines = File.ReadAllLines(input);
Person p;
string[] splitLine;
string[] numbers;
string line;
foreach (string temp in lines)
{
line = temp.Replace(",", "");
if (!(temp.ElementAt<char>(1) == 'M' || temp.ElementAt<char>(1) == 'P' || temp.Contains("0000")))//ignore header and marble memorials
{
//Parsing the information and adding the people goes here
p = new Person();
line.Replace(",\"", "");
p.PlaqueNum1 = line.Substring(1, 1);
p.PlaqueNum2 = line.Substring(2, 1);
p.PlaqueNum3 = line.Substring(4, 2);
splitLine = line.Split('\"');
p.Id = splitLine[3];
p.NameF = splitLine[7];
p.NameL = splitLine[9];
numbers = splitLine[10].Split('/');
p.DayG = int.Parse(numbers[1]);
p.MonthG = int.Parse(numbers[0]);
p.YearG = int.Parse(numbers[2]);
people.Add(p);
}
}
}
else
Console.WriteLine("No Input file");
return people;
}