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/// <summary>
/// Compute the distance between two strings.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="x">The string to search for/compare</param>
/// <param name="y">The string to search in/compare</param>
/// <returns>The distance between two strings. Lower is closer.</returns>
/// <remarks>Calculate the Levenshtein Distance between two strings (the number of insertions, deletions, and substitutions needed to transform the first string into the second)</remarks>
public static int GetDistance(this string x,string y){if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(x))return string.IsNullOrEmpty(y)?0:y.Length;else if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(y))return x.Length;int n=x.Length,m=y.Length;int[,]d=new int[n+1,m+1];if(0==m)return n;for(int i=0;i<=n;d[i,0]=i++);for(int j=0;j<=m;d[0,j]=j++);for(int i=1;i<=n;++i)for(int j=1;j<=m;++j)d[i,j]=Math.Min(Math.Min(d[i-1,j]+1,d[i,j-1]+1),d[i-1,j-1]+((y[j-1]==x[i-1])?0:1));return d[n,m];}

honey the codewitch wrote:

would it have been better or worse if i told you i just write code that way?

honey the codewitch wrote:

When you get to be as old as I am, brackets and whitespace just aren't important anymore.

string result = something ? variable.GetString() : null;

Sander Rossel wrote:

How could I have missed that!

M.D.V.

If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Marc Clifton wrote:

Sadly the reality is that I do have to work with other developers

ZurdoDev wrote:

In fairness, they could be new to web development. It's a different animal than Windows Forms.

dandy72 wrote:

I learned Windows programming from Petzold.

honey the codewitch wrote:

You could have learned from far worse.