Question

how can i make a function that extracts digits and letters from tokens,i am trying to work on a lexical analyzer in c sharp which extracts variables datatypes liberaries from a cpp file
i want my function to extract digits and letters i have managed to make functions that extract variables ,datatypes n libraries

for example i want a combination of these two functions

bool IsDigit(char ch)
{
    return (ch >='0' && ch <= '9');
}

bool IsAlpha(char ch)
{
    return (ch >='a' && ch <= 'z'|| ch>'A '&& ch<'Z');

}

any ideas??

Answer 1

You can try this:-

 Match match = regex.Match("10ABCD");
 string letter = match.Groups["letter"].Value;
  int number = int.Parse(match.Groups["number"].Value);

or try a regular expression:-

 ((?<number>\d+)(?<letter>[a-zA-Z])|(?<letter>[a-zA-Z])(?<number>\d+))