// Parse paragraph string into sentence strings based on delimiters
public static List <clsSentence> parseParagraphString(string paragraphString)
{
List <string> sentenceStrings = new List <string>();
int minimumLength = 3;
int start = 0;
int end = 0;
if (paragraphString.Length > 0)
{
while (end != -1) // don't add empty strings
{
end = paragraphString.IndexOfAny(delimiters, start); // find next delimiter
// get the content upto and including the delimiter or just the rest
int length = 0;
if (end != -1)
{
length = (end + 1) - start;
}
else
{
length = paragraphString.Length - start;
}
string content = paragraphString.Substring(start, length);
// add to results
if ((length < minimumLength) && (sentenceStrings.Count > 0))
{
// too small add it to last string
sentenceStrings[sentenceStrings.Count - 1] += content;
}
else
{
// add a new sentence string
sentenceStrings.Add(content);
}
// set next start
start = end + 1;
}
}
// create list of sentence objects from string
List <clsSentence> sentences = new List <clsSentence>();
foreach (string sentenceString in sentenceStrings)
{
// add to collection
clsSentence sentence = new clsSentence(sentenceString);
if (sentence.fragments.Count > 0)
{
sentences.Add(sentence);
}
}
return(sentences);
}