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An instance of the Alphabet class contains types of characters used for indexing. For detailed information on the types of characters, see the Character types page.

The GetCharacterType method is used to get the type of a specific character.

The Count property returns the number of characters of a type other than CharacterType.Separator.

To set the type of characters in the alphabet, use the SetRange method.

To set the CharacterType.Separator type for all characters in the alphabet, use the Clear method.

To export types of all characters to a file, use the ExportDictionary method.

To import types of all characters from a file, use the ImportDictionary method.

The following example demonstrates the use of methods of the alphabet.

C#

string indexFolder = @"c:\MyIndex\";
 
// Creating or opening an index from the specified folder
Index index = new Index(indexFolder);
 
if (index.Dictionaries.Alphabet.Count > 0)
{
    // Setting a type of all characters to Separator
    index.Dictionaries.Alphabet.Clear();
}
 
if (index.Dictionaries.Alphabet.GetCharacterType('-') != CharacterType.Blended)
{
    // Setting a type of hyphen character to Blended
    index.Dictionaries.Alphabet.SetRange(new char[] { '-' }, CharacterType.Blended);
}
 
// Export the alphabet to a file
index.Dictionaries.Alphabet.ExportDictionary(@"C:\Alphabet.dat");
 
// Import the alphabet from a file
index.Dictionaries.Alphabet.ImportDictionary(@"C:\Alphabet.dat");

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