MathUtilEditDistance Method (String, String, MathUtilEditDistanceOptions)

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Gets the Levenshtein or Damerau-Levenshtein edit distance between two strings.

Namespace: Telogis.GeoBase
Assembly: geobase.net (in geobase.net.dll) Version: 4.99.0.0

Syntax

public static int EditDistance(
	string stringA,
	string stringB,
	MathUtilEditDistanceOptions options
)

Public Shared Function EditDistance ( 
	stringA As String,
	stringB As String,
	options As MathUtilEditDistanceOptions
) As Integer

Parameters

stringA: Type: SystemString
The first string to compare.
stringB: Type: SystemString
The second string to compare.
options: Type: Telogis.GeoBaseMathUtilEditDistanceOptions
Options controlling how the edit distance is calculated.

Return Value

Type: Int32
The Levenshtein or Damerau-Levenshtein edit distance. Returns -1 if one of the options is violated (for example, differing first characters when using EditDistanceOptions.RequireFirstCharacterMatch), or if either of the input strings is empty.

Reference

MathUtil Class

EditDistance Overload

Telogis.GeoBase Namespace

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Parameters

Return Value

Reference

MathUtilEditDistance Method (String, String, MathUtilEditDistanceOptions)