I am a newbie in C#, and I am having problems.
I have 2 List, 2 strings and a getCombinations(string) method that returns all combinations of a string as List;
How do i validate if a subjectStrings element does not StartWith && !EndsWith && !Contains (or !StartWith && !EndsWith && Contains, etc.) for every combinations of startswithString, endswithString and containsString?
Here is my code in StartWith && !EndsWith (if you want to see it running: http://ideone.com/y8JZkK)
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
public class Test
{
public static void Main()
{
List<string> validatedStrings = new List<string>();
List<string> subjectStrings = new List<string>()
{
"con", "cot", "eon", "net", "not", "one", "ten", "toe", "ton",
"cent", "cone", "conn", "cote", "neon", "none", "note", "once", "tone",
"cento", "conte", "nonce", "nonet", "oncet", "tenon", "tonne",
"nocent","concent", "connect"
}; //got a more longer wordlist
string startswithString = "co";
string endswithString = "et";
foreach(var z in subjectStrings)
{
bool valid = false;
foreach(var a in getCombinations(startswithString))
{
foreach(var b in getCombinations(endswithString))
{
if(z.StartsWith(a) && !z.EndsWith(b))
{
valid = true;
break;
}
}
if(valid)
{
break;
}
}
if(valid)
{
validatedStrings.Add(z);
}
}
foreach(var a in validatedStrings)
{
Console.WriteLine(a);
}
Console.WriteLine("\nDone");
}
static List<string> getCombinations(string s)
{
//Code that calculates combinations
return Permutations.Permutate(s);
}
}
public class Permutations
{
private static List<List<string>> allCombinations;
private static void CalculateCombinations(string word, List<string> temp)
{
if (temp.Count == word.Length)
{
List<string> clone = temp.ToList();
if (clone.Distinct().Count() == clone.Count)
{
allCombinations.Add(clone);
}
return;
}
for (int i = 0; i < word.Length; i++)
{
temp.Add(word[i].ToString());
CalculateCombinations(word, temp);
temp.RemoveAt(temp.Count - 1);
}
}
public static List<string> Permutate(string str)
{
allCombinations = new List<List<string>>();
CalculateCombinations(str, new List<string>());
List<string> combinations = new List<string>();
foreach(var a in allCombinations)
{
string c = "";
foreach(var b in a)
{
c+=b;
}
combinations.Add(c);
}
return combinations;
}
}
Output:
con
cot
cone
conn
cote <<<
conte <<<
concent
connect
Done
if(z.StartsWith(a) && !z.EndsWith(b)) var b can be "et" and "te", but cote and conte endswith "te", why it is still added in my validated strings?
Thanks in advance.
z.StartsWith(a) && !z.EndsWith(b)
check below combination
z ="cote"
a ="co"
b ="te"
so z start with "co" and z not end with "te", your condition pass and cote
will add to list
i would try as below
var sw =getCombinations(startswithString);
var ew = getCombinations(endswithString);
var result = subjectStrings.Where(z=>
sw.Any(x=>z.StartsWith(x) &&
!ew.Any(y=>z.EndsWith(y))))
.ToList();
output :
con
cot
cone
conn
concent
connect