Question

OK, so a class in my project goes through this method.

public static MemberName SplitTdsName(string tdsName)
    {
        NameSplitter preSplitName = new NameSplitter(tdsName);
        return preSplitName;
    }

MemberName is a struct:

public struct MemberName
{
    public string Title;
    public string FirstNames;
    public string LastNames;

    public MemberName(string title, string firstNames, string lastNames)            
    {            
        Title = title;
        FirstNames = firstNames;
        LastNames = lastNames;
    }
}

And NameSplitter class:

public NameSplitter(string fullName)
    {
        nameInFull = fullName;
        SetAllowedTitles();
        SplitNamesAndRemovePeriods();
        SetTitles();
        MemberName splitName = new MemberName(titles, firstNames, lastNames);
        return splitName;
    }

This won’t work because when I change public NameSplitter to public MemberName NameSplitter the SplitTdsName method tells me NameSplitter doesn’t have a method that takes one argument.

I don’t know how to work around this or get it to work. Do I need to change NameSplitter to a NameSplitter a static class?

Note: I KNOW THE CODE IS WRONG

Went with:

public static MemberName SplitTdsName(string tdsName)
    {
        return NameSplitter.NameSplitter(tdsName);
    }

public static MemberName NameSplitter(string fullName)
    {
        nameInFull = fullName;
        SetAllowedTitles();
        SplitNamesAndRemovePeriods();
        SetTitles();
        MemberName splitName = new MemberName(titles, firstNames, lastNames);
        return splitName;
    }

    public MemberName(string title, string firstNames, string lastNames)            
    {            
        Title = title;
        FirstNames = firstNames;
        LastNames = lastNames;
    }

Answer 1

Try to implement the class like:

    public static class NameSplitter
    {
        public static MemberName Split(string fullName)
        {
            ...
            MemberName splitName = new MemberName(titles, firstNames, lastNames);
            return splitName;
        }
    }

and then use as MemberName mn = NameSplitter.Split("<your data here>");

Final code can look like:

    public static class YourClass
    {
        ...
        public static MemberName SplitTdsName(string tdsName)
        {
            MemberName preSplitName = NameSplitter.Split(tdsName);
            return preSplitName;
        }
    }

    public static class NameSplitter
    {
        ...
        public static MemberName Split(string fullName)
        {
            nameInFull = fullName;
            SetAllowedTitles();
            SplitNamesAndRemovePeriods();
            SetTitles();
            MemberName splitName = new MemberName(titles, firstNames, lastNames);
            return splitName;
        }
    }

    public struct MemberName
    {
        public string Title;
        public string FirstNames;
        public string LastNames;

        public MemberName(string title, string firstNames, string lastNames)
        {
            Title = title;
            FirstNames = firstNames;
            LastNames = lastNames;
        }
    }