Question

What I need to do is parse a huge string of text into sentences. Sentences are isolated by looking for a terminator. Terminators include ‘.’ and ‘?’ and ‘:’ and ellipsis (“…”).

is there a way I can say

if (char is terminator) 
{ 
    // do this 
}

in a clean manner instead of

if (char == '.' || char == '?' || char == etc etc etc etc ) 

i did think of doing having an array of the terminators and doing

if (ArrayofTerminators.Contains<char>('thechar'))
{
    // do that 
} 

but that seems silly too?

*edit Thanks. Was hard to chose with so many good replies. Anyway I devided to go with UnhandledException’s answer because it’s compact and elegant and just what I was looking for really.

Answer 1

char[] delimiters = new char[] { '.', '?' };
string[] sentences= text.Split(delimiters, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);