Assorted.Utils.Text.StringExtensions.DamerauLevenshteinSimilarityTo.md

StringExtensions.DamerauLevenshteinSimilarityTo(this string, string) Method

Namespace: Assorted.Utils.Text
Assembly: Assorted.Utils (Assorted.Utils.dll) version 1.1.0.0

Returns the normalized Damerau-Levenshtein distance between two strings.

Syntax

public static double DamerauLevenshteinSimilarityTo(this string source, string other)

Parameters

source: string
The source string.

other: string
The other string.

Return Value

double
A value between 0 and 1 such that 0 equates to no similarity and 1 is an exact match.

Exceptions

Exception	Description
System.ArgumentNullException	source or other is null.

Remarks

The Damerau-Levenshtein distance is defined as the minimum number of primitive edit operations needed to transform one text into the other and these operations are substitution, deletion, insertion and the transposition of two adjacent characters.

See Also

• Assorted.Utils.Text Namespace
• StringExtensions Class
• JaroSimilarityTo(this string, string)
• JaroWinklerSimilarityTo(this string, string, int)

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