jellyfin/MediaBrowser.Common/Extensions/BaseExtensions.cs

using System;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace MediaBrowser.Common.Extensions
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Class BaseExtensions
    /// </summary>
    public static class BaseExtensions
    {

        /// <summary>
        /// Strips the HTML.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="htmlString">The HTML string.</param>
        /// <returns>System.String.</returns>
        public static string StripHtml(this string htmlString)
        {
            // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1349023/how-can-i-strip-html-from-text-in-net
            const string pattern = @"<(.|\n)*?>";
            return Regex.Replace(htmlString, pattern, string.Empty).Trim();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the M d5.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="str">The STR.</param>
        /// <returns>Guid.</returns>
        public static Guid GetMD5(this string str)
        {
            using (var provider = MD5.Create())
            {
                return new Guid(provider.ComputeHash(Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(str)));
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the MB id.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="str">The STR.</param>
        /// <param name="aType">A type.</param>
        /// <returns>Guid.</returns>
        /// <exception cref="System.ArgumentNullException">aType</exception>
        public static Guid GetMBId(this string str, Type aType)
        {
            if (aType == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException("aType");
            }
            
            return (aType.FullName + str.ToLower()).GetMD5();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the attribute value.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="str">The STR.</param>
        /// <param name="attrib">The attrib.</param>
        /// <returns>System.String.</returns>
        /// <exception cref="System.ArgumentNullException">attrib</exception>
        public static string GetAttributeValue(this string str, string attrib)
        {
            if (attrib == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException("attrib");
            }
            
            string srch = "[" + attrib + "=";
            int start = str.IndexOf(srch, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
            if (start > -1)
            {
                start += srch.Length;
                int end = str.IndexOf(']', start);
                return str.Substring(start, end - start);
            }
            return null;
        }
    }
}