public bool?FindVerticalWords()
{
bool foundAtLeastOneWord = false;
for (int columnIndex = 0; columnIndex < Width; columnIndex++)
{
StringBuilder columnBuilder = new StringBuilder();
for (int row = 0; row < Height; row++)
{
columnBuilder.Append(Lines[row][columnIndex]);
}
string column = columnBuilder.ToString().ToLower();
//Does this string contains a word?
for (int length = 6; 3 <= length; length--)
{
for (int row = 0; row <= Height - 3; row++)
{
if (6 < row + length)
{
break;
}
string wordCandidate = column.Substring(row, length);
if (repository.IsAWord(wordCandidate))
{
WordLocation locationToAdd = new WordLocation()
{
Column = columnIndex,
Horizontal = false,
Length = length,
Row = row,
Word = wordCandidate
};
if (!IsAlreadyIncluded(FoundWords, locationToAdd))
{
FoundWords.Add(locationToAdd);
}
foundAtLeastOneWord = true;
break; //don't look for a shorter word.
}
if (Verbose)
{
Console.WriteLine($"{wordCandidate} is not a word.");
}
}
}
}
return(foundAtLeastOneWord);
}
private bool IsAlreadyIncluded(List <WordLocation> foundWords, WordLocation locationToAdd)
{
foreach (var location in foundWords)
{
if (location.Word == locationToAdd.Word &
location.Column == locationToAdd.Column &
location.Row == locationToAdd.Row)
{
return(true);
}
}
return(false);
}
public bool FindHorizontalWords()
{
bool foundAtLeastOneWord = false;
for (int row = 0; row < Height; row++)
{
for (int column = 0; column <= Width - 3; column++)
{
for (int length = Width - column; 3 <= length; length--)
{
var wordCandidate = Lines[row].Substring(column, length).ToLower();
if (repository.IsAWord(wordCandidate))
{
if (Verbose)
{
Console.WriteLine($"{row} {column} {length} {wordCandidate} is a word.");
}
WordLocation locationToAdd = new WordLocation()
{
Column = column,
Row = row,
Length = length,
Word = wordCandidate
};
if (!IsAlreadyIncluded(FoundWords, locationToAdd))
{
FoundWords.Add(locationToAdd);
}
foundAtLeastOneWord = true;
break; //don't look for substrings in this column.
}
if (Verbose)
{
Console.WriteLine($"{row} {column} {length} {wordCandidate} is NOT a word.");
}
}
}
}
return(foundAtLeastOneWord);
}
