/// <summary>
/// Get possible questions using index.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="initial">The initial index.</param>
/// <param name="limit">The maximum records.</param>
/// <returns>All possible questions.</returns>
public List <Question> getQuestion(string initial, int limit = 10)
{
if (!sorted)
{
sort();
}
long indexLow, indexHigh;
Tuple <long, long> resultTuple = QuestionIndex.getPossibleIndex(initial);
indexLow = resultTuple.Item1;
indexHigh = resultTuple.Item2;
int locationLow = allQuestion.BinarySearch(new Question(indexLow, "", ""), (q1, q2) => q1.index.CompareTo(q2.index));
if (locationLow < 0)
{
locationLow = -locationLow - 1; // only one -1 since we need to take the previous one
}
int locationHigh = allQuestion.BinarySearch(new Question(indexHigh, "", ""), (q1, q2) => q1.index.CompareTo(q2.index));
if (locationHigh < 0)
{
locationHigh = -locationHigh - 1 - 1; //first for index inversion, second for not picking the one just larger than locationHigh.
}
List <Question> result = new List <Question>();
for (int i = locationLow; i <= locationHigh; i++)
{
result.Add(allQuestion[i]);
if (result.Count > limit)
{
break;
}
}
return(result);
}
public static List <Question> getQuestion(string q, string a, string text = "")
{
List <Question> result = new List <Question>();
List <string> allInitials = pinyin.getAllPossibleInitials(q);
foreach (string s in allInitials)
{
if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(text))
{
result.Add(new Question(QuestionIndex.getPreciseIndex(s), q, a, q));
}
else
{
result.Add(new Question(QuestionIndex.getPreciseIndex(s), q, a, text));
}
}
return(result);
}