Program.cs

/*
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*/

namespace Console;
using ikatic.StringMetrics;

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        System.Console.Clear();

        // Initialize the dictionary
        Dictionary<string, string> pairs = new Dictionary<string, string>();

        // Add pairs to be matched/compared to the dictionary

        //Compare individual words for similarity:
        pairs.Add("House", "Hause");
        pairs.Add("Intelligent", "Intelligence");
        pairs.Add("Train", "Cough");

        //Compare sentences for similarity:
        pairs.Add("The cat napped on the sunny mat", "The dog slept on the cozy bed");
        pairs.Add("The house is blue.", "Is the house red?");

        // Iterate over the dictionary and compare using each of the string metrics:
        foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> pair in pairs)
        {
            System.Console.WriteLine("\nCompare using Hamming string metric......");
            ikatic.StringMetrics.IMetric hamming = ikatic.StringMetrics.Factory.Create(ikatic.StringMetrics.Metrics.Hamming) as ikatic.StringMetrics.IMetric;
            Print(hamming, pair.Key, pair.Value);

            System.Console.WriteLine("\nCompare using Dice string metric......");
            ikatic.StringMetrics.IMetric dice = ikatic.StringMetrics.Factory.Create(ikatic.StringMetrics.Metrics.Dice) as ikatic.StringMetrics.IMetric;
            Print(dice, pair.Key, pair.Value);

            System.Console.WriteLine("\nCompare using Jaro string metric......");
            ikatic.StringMetrics.IMetric jaro = ikatic.StringMetrics.Factory.Create(ikatic.StringMetrics.Metrics.Jaro) as ikatic.StringMetrics.IMetric;
            Print(jaro, pair.Key, pair.Value);

            System.Console.WriteLine("\nCompare using Jaro-Winkler string metric......");
            ikatic.StringMetrics.IMetric jw = ikatic.StringMetrics.Factory.Create(ikatic.StringMetrics.Metrics.JaroWinkler) as ikatic.StringMetrics.IMetric;
            Print(jw, pair.Key, pair.Value);

            System.Console.WriteLine("\nCompare using Soundex string metric......");
            ikatic.StringMetrics.IMetric sdx = ikatic.StringMetrics.Factory.Create(ikatic.StringMetrics.Metrics.Soundex) as ikatic.StringMetrics.IMetric;
            Print(sdx, pair.Key, pair.Value);

            System.Console.WriteLine("\nCompare using Levenshtein string metric......");
            ikatic.StringMetrics.IMetric lev = ikatic.StringMetrics.Factory.Create(ikatic.StringMetrics.Metrics.Levenshtein) as ikatic.StringMetrics.IMetric;
            Print(lev, pair.Key, pair.Value);

            System.Console.WriteLine("\nCompare using Damerau-Levenshtein string metric......");
            ikatic.StringMetrics.IMetric dlev = ikatic.StringMetrics.Factory.Create(ikatic.StringMetrics.Metrics.DamerauLevenshtein) as ikatic.StringMetrics.IMetric;
            Print(dlev, pair.Key, pair.Value);
        }
    }


    static void Print(IMetric sim, string p, string t)
    {
        //invokes compare method and prints results:
        sim.Compare(p, t);
        System.Console.WriteLine("'{0}' and '{1}' are {2} similar with a distance {3}; compare took {4} milliseconds.", p, t, sim.Score, sim.Distance, sim.Diagnostics.Milliseconds);
    }

}