Android Code Snippet Check for FortAwesome / Material Icon

Private Sub CheckForFontAwesome(str As String) As Boolean
            ' Regex pattern to match "fa-" followed by a name.
            ' This will match strings like "fa-star", "fa-user-circle", etc.
            Dim faPattern As String = "fa-[a-z0-9-]+"

            Dim m As Matcher
            m = Regex.Matcher(faPattern, str)

            ' Matcher.Find returns True if any part of the string matches the pattern.
            Return m.Find
End Sub           

Private Sub CheckForMaterialIcon(str As String) As Boolean
            ' Regex pattern to match "material-icons" or "mi-" followed by a name.
            Dim MaterialPattern As String = "(material-icons|mi)-[a-z0-9_]+"

            Dim m As Matcher
            m = Regex.Matcher(MaterialPattern, str)

            ' Matcher.Find returns True if any part of the string matches the pattern.
            Return m.Find
End Sub

 

[AnandGupta]

Private Sub CheckForFontAwesome(str As String) As Boolean
            ' Regex pattern to match "fa-" followed by a name.
            ' This will match strings like "fa-star", "fa-user-circle", etc.
            Dim faPattern As String = "fa-[a-z0-9-]+"

            Dim m As Matcher
            m = Regex.Matcher(faPattern, str)

            ' Matcher.Find returns True if any part of the string matches the pattern.
            Return m.Find
End Sub          

Private Sub CheckForMaterialIcon(str As String) As Boolean
            ' Regex pattern to match "material-icons" or "mi-" followed by a name.
            Dim MaterialPattern As String = "(material-icons|mi)-[a-z0-9_]+"

            Dim m As Matcher
            m = Regex.Matcher(MaterialPattern, str)

            ' Matcher.Find returns True if any part of the string matches the pattern.
            Return m.Find
End Sub

Sorry, can you give example how to use it and when ?

 

[Robert Valentino]

I am parsing a PDF and the fields are relative to the start of the line.

On one of the PDFs a user put a FontAwesome Star before one of the name (so all the fields got pushed down one).

The text came in to me as "fa-star" (which is the FontAwesome Star) but to my program just looked like what could be a persons name (right, it is just text)
But that push the name field to where I was looking for numbers and everything go missed aligned. (wish I had an example of the PDF but no longer have access)

So while processing the fields that come in if ANY of them is a FontAwesome or MaterialFont I just skip it (treat it like garbage - which to me it is)

Not sure if this example will help. Take into to mind that I am processing the fields relative to start of line

                            If  Offset = Hdr.NameAt Then
                                '-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                '    Look to see if this string is actually a Font Awesome or Material Icon character
                                '-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                If  CheckForFontAwesome(Value) Or CheckForMaterialIcon(Value)  Then
                                    Continue
                                End If                                

                                 Player.Name = Value
                            else if ....
                            End If

Hope this helps - If I get access to the PDF again I will screen shot the section and post it