🖥️How to use

How do I use this library?

This library contains a plethora of features that allow you to manipulate with or generate text. They are intended to improve your productivity and accelerate your text generation.

The following features are available in Textify.Data.Analysis:

👤pageName Generation🀄pageUnicode Analysis🖊️pageWord Management

The following features are available in the base Textify library:

✅pageSpace Analysis and Correction📅pageSemantic Versioning👨‍🦽pageAccessibility Tools

For general usage of the text manipulation library, you can use the TextTools class to get access to various string manipulators. This class is found in the Textify.General namespace. Additionally, the JSON tools can be found in the JsonTools class (found in the Textify.Json namespace) to get access to various JSON tools, such as getting a difference between two JSON objects.

In addition to the general text tools, you can also use the regular expression tools found under the Textify.Tools namespace.

String syntax attribute

First introduced in .NET 7, you can use the string syntax attribute, called StringSyntaxAttribute, to give your strings in the function context, but it's only available in the source code level. This depends on your IDE and how it supports this attribute.

Here's a simple example of how to use it:

public static bool IsValidRegex([StringSyntax(StringSyntaxAttribute.Regex)] string pattern) =>
    IsValidRegex(new Regex(pattern));

You can use this syntax attribute in not only .NET 7.0+ apps, but you can also use it in .NET Standard and .NET Framework applications.

When trying to use this attribute in .NET 7.0+ apps while using Textify, you'll notice this error message appearing in the error list:

The type 'StringSyntaxAttribute' exists in both 'Textify, Version=1.9.0.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=21c82ea14d2d7748' and 'System.Runtime, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'

This is intentional, because Visual Studio only highlights the string based on context defined by this attribute when it is found in the System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis namespace.

To solve this error, you must make an alias of the Textify.Offline NuGet package by clicking on the Properties button in the right-click menu of the package and writing global, TextifyAlias to the Aliases property. Then, write the extern alias statement at the top of the source code file and modify the using statement for the CodeAnalysis namespace, such as:

extern alias TextifyAlias;
using TextifyAlias::System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;

After that, you should be able to use this attribute.

If everything works properly, you should be able to see that parts of your string, such as regex in the below screenshot, are highlighted in different colors, and warnings should work, too.