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Find all unique words in an array of words
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#region Copyright (c) 2004, Ryan Whitaker
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'
' Copyright (c) 2004 Ryan Whitaker
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' This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no
' event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this
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' Lothian's Java text classification engine, Classifier4J
' (http://classifier4j.sourceforge.net).
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#endregion
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
namespace NClassifier
{
public class Utilities
{
/// <summary>
/// Find all unique words in an array of words.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="input">An array of strings.</param>
/// <returns>An array of all unique strings. Order is not guaranteed.</returns>
public static string[] GetUniqueWords(string[] input)
{
if (input == null)
return new string[0];
else
{
ArrayList result = new ArrayList();
for (int i = 0; i < input.Length; i++)
if (!result.Contains(input[i]))
result.Add(input[i]);
return (string[])result.ToArray("".GetType());
}
}
}
}
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