Splitting String only on a "space". Using my method --- FIXED

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Good afternoon all,

I am trying to create a RPG style text, and I wish to split up a single string given in and have it split into an array based on how many characters are allowed in each array index. Here is the code I have been working on.

 float remainder = newText.Length % splitIndex;
 _textBlocks = new string[(int)(Mathf.Floor(newText.Length / (float)splitIndex)) + ((remainder==0) ? 0 : 1)];
 for(int x = 0; x < _textBlocks.Length; x++)
 {
     _textBlocks[x] = newText.Substring(x*splitIndex, (int)((x==_textBlocks.Length-1) ? remainder : splitIndex));
 }

The above code does what I wish: The Issue IS It splits in the middle of words depending on the string passed in.

I was t$$anonymous$$nking of w$$anonymous$$le looping backward until it $$anonymous$$ts an empty string then add that array to the _textBlocks[x]. However the methods I am trying yield no good result, or gives more issues than it solves.

OTHER THEORY:

Split the entire string via. string.split(" "[0]) then count each array length, add it to clump value, if that value exceeds splitIndex, then add string.split values that include what we just looked at... Confusing, a bit. Hopfully someone can help me make sense of t$$anonymous$$s.

Answer 1

FIXED, I ended up looping through the arrays after they were built and fixing them accordingly.

 float remainder = newText.Length % splitIndex;
 _textBlocks = new string[(int)(Mathf.Floor(newText.Length / (float)splitIndex)) + ((remainder==0) ? 0 : 1)];
 
 for(int x = 0; x < _textBlocks.Length; x++)
 {
     _textBlocks[x] = newText.Substring(x*splitIndex, (int)((x==_textBlocks.Length-1) ? ((remainder==0) ? splitIndex : remainder) : splitIndex));
 }
 
 for(int x = 0; x < _textBlocks.Length; x++)
 {
     w$$anonymous$$le(_textBlocks[x].Substring(_textBlocks[x].Length - 1) != " ")
     {
         if(x+1 != _textBlocks.Length)
         {
             _textBlocks[x+1] = _textBlocks[x+1].Insert(0, _textBlocks[x].Substring(_textBlocks[x].Length - 1));
             _textBlocks[x] = _textBlocks[x].Remove(_textBlocks[x].Length - 1);
         }
         else
             break;
     }
 }

YAY :D Finally I can move on!

Answer 2

Answer by Hrungdak · Apr 17, 2015 at 05:33 AM

It would be helpful if you post an input-string and the result that you want to have. The code above splits the text with substring. There is no code to deal with words or spaces. At least i can't see one.

If you want to display text with a certain width (say 20 characters):

  - Split the text after each word (with split, as you said)
  - take the first word as actual string
  - A: take the next word
  - if actual string + space + next word is longer than splitIndex put actual string in array, the next word is the new first word
 - if not, bind the next word to the actual string
  - redo from A: until no more words

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KitoCode · Apr 17, 2015 at 09:47 PM 0

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