Helper methods to clear up parsed text

lottery-co-uk-scraper/Utilities/TextRemoval.cs

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+using System.Globalization;
+using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
+
+namespace lottery_co_uk_scraper.Utilities
+{
+    public class TextRemoval
+    {
+        public static string RemoveOrdinalSuffix(string input)
+        {
+            return Regex.Replace(input, "(?<=\\d)(st|nd|rd|th)\\b", "");
+        }
+
+        public static DateTime ParseDateString(string dateString)
+        {
+            // Define the prefix to be ignored
+            string prefixToIgnore = "Lotto Results ";
+
+            // Check if the input string starts with the specified prefix
+            if (dateString.StartsWith(prefixToIgnore))
+            {
+                // Remove the prefix before attempting to parse the date
+                dateString = dateString.Substring(prefixToIgnore.Length);
+            }
+
+            // Helper function to remove ordinal suffix from day
+            string cleanedDateString = RemoveOrdinalSuffix(dateString);
+
+            if (DateTime.TryParseExact(cleanedDateString, "dddd d MMMM yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, DateTimeStyles.None, out var parsedDate))
+            {
+                return parsedDate;
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                return DateTime.MinValue;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}