I am trying to figure out how to make an interactive word search console application. The application searches for the characters the user has inputted in a text file and outputs all the words that contain the characters in the input word. The way it should work is that the user inputs a search entry and the console shows the results AS the user types the characters, updating after each new character.
I now have it working in a way that requires the user to press enter to search. What do I need to change?
public class Search
{
public static void Main()
{
const string PATH = "kotus_sanat.txt";
string[] words = File.ReadAllLines(PATH);
Console.Write("search: ");
string entry = Console.ReadLine();
List<string> result = new List<string>();
result= FindWords(entry, words);
for (int i = 0; i < result.Count; i++)
{
Console.WriteLine(result[i]);
}
}
public static List<string> FindWords(string entry, string[] words)
{
List<string> results = new List<string>();
for (int i = 0; i < words.Length; i++)
{
if (ContainsAllChars(words[i], entry) == true) results.Add(words[i]);
}
return results;
}
public static bool ContainsAllChars(string word, string chars)
{
StringBuilder charsNow = new StringBuilder(chars);
StringBuilder wordNow = new StringBuilder(word);
int i = 0;
while (i < chars.Length)
{
char charNow = chars[i];
int charIndex = wordNow.IndexOf(charNow);
if (charIndex >= 0)
{
wordNow[charIndex] = (char)0;
}
else return false;
i++;
}
return true;
}
}
public static class Helper
{
public static int IndexOf(this StringBuilder sb, char c, int startIndex = 0)
{
for (int i = startIndex; i < sb.Length; i++)
if (sb[i] == c)
return i;
return -1;
}
}
