From 798c51c472ba70ada8262c80d6563197f2fc38d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Lambert <john_lambert@sil.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 12:27:02 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] small updated needed for Serval

---
 src/SIL.Machine/Corpora/AlignedWordPair.cs | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/SIL.Machine/Corpora/AlignedWordPair.cs b/src/SIL.Machine/Corpora/AlignedWordPair.cs
index cf25108c8..534b87f81 100644
--- a/src/SIL.Machine/Corpora/AlignedWordPair.cs
+++ b/src/SIL.Machine/Corpora/AlignedWordPair.cs
@@ -23,6 +23,20 @@ public static IReadOnlyCollection<AlignedWordPair> Parse(string alignments, bool
             return result;
         }
 
+        public static bool TryParse(string alignments, out IReadOnlyCollection<AlignedWordPair> alignedWordPairs)
+        {
+            alignedWordPairs = null;
+            try
+            {
+                alignedWordPairs = Parse(alignments);
+                return true;
+            }
+            catch
+            {
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+
         public AlignedWordPair(int sourceIndex, int targetIndex)
         {
             SourceIndex = sourceIndex;