Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
C# WinApp: Let’s say I search for dtg but the items that I am searching in are dvg , dz, dxg … so I want it to find dvg for me because it is closer to dtg that I was searching for.
I know there are some NP-hard algorithms for that but really I do not want to spend a ton of time on this. is there any String methods that does something close to this? or can do it with a few extra liens of code?
You want to use a Soundex. If I can find a link to some code I’ll get you some. I did a spell checker using Soundexes, and it’s exactly what you’re looking for.
In the meantime, this google search should help:
http://www.google.com/search?q=C%23+soundex&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Here’s a good C# implementation: http://www.builderau.com.au/program/csharp/print.htm?TYPE=story&AT=339291792-339028385t-320002002c