public static string RemoveHashtags()

in code/Utils/TopicUtils.cs [24:52]

• 20 lines of code
• 7 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

        public static string RemoveHashtags(string text)
        {
            // skip empty strings
            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(text))
            {
                return text;
            }

            // walk through the string
            int i = text.IndexOf("#", 0);
            while (i > -1 && i < (text.Length - 1))
            {
                // hashtags start with # (i.e. start of string or whitespace followed by #)
                if (i == 0 || char.IsWhiteSpace(text[i - 1]))
                {
                    // hashtags must have 1 non-whitespace character after the #
                    if (!char.IsWhiteSpace(text[i + 1]))
                    {
                        // insert a space
                        text = text.Insert(i + 1, " ");
                    }
                }

                // continue searching from right after the #
                i = text.IndexOf("#", i + 1);
            }

            return text;
        }