This class allows you to manipulate a string by its individual elements. Each separately displayed character is considered a text element. This includes base characters and the Unicode-defined surrogate pairs and combining character sequences. The class provides enumeration of the elements in the string, as well as a means of further identifying combining characters. ParseCombiningCharacters( ) returns only the indexes of the base characters, high surrogates, and combined characters within a string.

public class StringInfo {
// Public Constructors
   public StringInfo( );
// Public Static Methods
   public static string GetNextTextElement(string str);
   public static string GetNextTextElement(string str, int index);
   public static TextElementEnumerator GetTextElementEnumerator(string str);
   public static TextElementEnumerator GetTextElementEnumerator(string str, int index);
   public static int[ ] ParseCombiningCharacters(string str);
}