using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; namespace DataLayer { internal class Formatters { private static string[] _sortPrefixIgnores { get; } = { "the", "a", "an" }; public static string GetSortName(string unformattedName) { var sortName = unformattedName .Replace("|", "") .Replace(":", "") .ToLowerInvariant() .Trim(); if (_sortPrefixIgnores.Any(prefix => sortName.StartsWith(prefix + " "))) sortName = sortName .Substring(sortName.IndexOf(" ") + 1) .TrimStart(); return sortName; } } }