Parse a search string

[Mufasa]

Does anybody have any code that will take a search string and parse it in to
the appropriate parts?

For instance: +google -news -bush

TIA - J.

[John Timney \(MVP\)]

Not sure why you can'yt just split on space, then evaluate each to see what
the first character is and if its minus sign do one thing, else do something
if its a plus, or do something if its neither

Regards

John Timney (MVP)
http://www.johntimney.com
http://www.johntimney.com/blog
"Mufasa" <[e-mail] wrote in message
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Does anybody have any code that will take a search string and parse it in
to the appropriate parts?

For instance: +google -news -bush

TIA - J.

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

Mufasa wrote:

Does anybody have any code that will take a search string and parse it in to
the appropriate parts?

For instance: +google -news -bush

For inspiration see below.

Arne

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public static void ParseSplit(stri ng s)
{
string[] parts = s.Split(" ".ToCharArray() );
foreach(string part in parts)
{
if(part[0] == '+')
{
Console.WriteLi ne("Include : " + part.Substring( 1));
}
else if(part[0] == '-')
{
Console.WriteLi ne("Exclude : " + part.Substring( 1));
}
}
}
private static readonly Regex incl = new Regex(@"(?:\+)( \w+)(?: |$)",
RegexOptions.Co mpiled);
private static readonly Regex excl = new Regex(@"(?:\-)(\w+)(?: |$)",
RegexOptions.Co mpiled);
public static void ParseRegex(stri ng s)
{
foreach(Match m in incl.Matches(s) )
{
Console.WriteLi ne("Include : " + m.Groups[1].Value);
}
foreach(Match m in excl.Matches(s) )
{
Console.WriteLi ne("Exclude : " + m.Groups[1].Value);
}
}