public static int iLD(String sRow, String sCol)
{
int RowLen = sRow.Length; // length of sRow
int ColLen = sCol.Length; // length of sCol
int RowIdx; // iterates through sRow
int ColIdx; // iterates through sCol
char Row_i; // ith character of sRow
char Col_j; // jth character of sCol
int cost; // cost
/// Test string length
if (Math.Max(sRow.Length, sCol.Length) > Math.Pow(2, 31))
throw (new Exception("\nMaximum string length in Levenshtein.iLD is " + Math.Pow(2, 31) + ".\nYours is " + Math.Max(sRow.Length, sCol.Length) + "."));
// Step 1
if (RowLen == 0)
{
return ColLen;
}
if (ColLen == 0)
{
return RowLen;
}
/// Create the two vectors
int[] v0 = new int[RowLen + 1];
int[] v1 = new int[RowLen + 1];
int[] vTmp;
/// Step 2
/// Initialize the first vector
for (RowIdx = 1; RowIdx <= RowLen; RowIdx++)
{
v0[RowIdx] = RowIdx;
}
// Step 3
/// Fore each column
for (ColIdx = 1; ColIdx <= ColLen; ColIdx++)
{
/// Set the 0'th element to the column number
v1[0] = ColIdx;
Col_j = sCol[ColIdx - 1];
// Step 4
/// Fore each row
for (RowIdx = 1; RowIdx <= RowLen; RowIdx++)
{
Row_i = sRow[RowIdx - 1];
// Step 5
if (Row_i == Col_j)
{
cost = 0;
}
else
{
cost = 1;
}
// Step 6
/// Find minimum
int m_min = v0[RowIdx] + 1;
int b = v1[RowIdx - 1] + 1;
int c = v0[RowIdx - 1] + cost;
if (b < m_min)
{
m_min = b;
}
if (c < m_min)
{
m_min = c;
}
v1[RowIdx] = m_min;
}
/// Swap the vectors
vTmp = v0;
v0 = v1;
v1 = vTmp;
}
// Step 7
/// Value between 0 - 100
/// 0==perfect match 100==totaly different
///
/// The vectors where swaped one last time at the end of the last loop,
/// that is why the result is now in v0 rather than in v1
System.Console.WriteLine("iDist=" + v0[RowLen]);
int max = System.Math.Max(RowLen, ColLen);
return ((100 * v0[RowLen]) / max);
}