/// <summary >
/// Sets the Survival and birth values, These have identical validation and formatting so I combined them into this method
/// You can set individual parameters or a range of values using an elipses.
/// </ summary >
/// <param name =" args " >String arguments that initialise the Game of Life settings</ param >
/// <param name =" pos " >The position of the --survival or --birth option within the args array</ param >
/// <param name =" SB " >survival or birth list address</ param >
private void readSB(int pos, string[] args, List <int> SB)
{
bool invalid = false;
try
{
for (int a = pos + 1; !args[a].Contains("--"); a++) // for all parameters
{
if (a == pos + 1)
{
SB.Clear(); //initalise setting new values
}
if (args[a].Contains("...")) // set range
{
string[] range = args[a].Split("...");
if (range.Length == 2 && int.Parse(range[0]) < int.Parse(range[1]))
{ //valid format?
for (int i = int.Parse(range[0]); i <= int.Parse(range[1]); i++)
{ // set parameters within range
if (validate.SB(i, neighbourhoodSize()) && !SB.Contains(i))
{
SB.Add(i);
}
else
{
invalid = true;
}
}
}
else
{
validate.invalid(args[a] + " Invalid format");
}
}
else // set birth or survival parameter
{
if (validate.SB(int.Parse(args[a]), neighbourhoodSize()) && !SB.Contains(int.Parse(args[a])))
{
SB.Add(int.Parse(args[a]));
}
else
{
invalid = true;
}
}
}
}
catch (Exception)
{
//reached the end of arguments
}
finally {
if (invalid)
{
validate.invalid("Invalid [--survival or --birth] value, must be 0 < [value] < " + neighbourhoodSize());
}
SB.Sort(); //sort
}
return;
}
