beagled/Lucene.Net/Util/StringHelper.cs

   1 /*
   2  * Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation
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  16 using System;
  17 namespace Lucene.Net.Util
  18 {
  19         /// <summary> Methods for manipulating strings.
  20         ///
  21         /// $Id: StringHelper.cs,v 1.2 2005/10/06 19:29:58 dsd Exp $
  22         /// </summary>
  23         public abstract class StringHelper
  24         {
  25
  26                 /// <summary> Compares two strings, character by character, and returns the
  27                 /// first position where the two strings differ from one another.
  28                 ///
  29                 /// </summary>
  30                 /// <param name="s1">The first string to compare
  31                 /// </param>
  32                 /// <param name="s2">The second string to compare
  33                 /// </param>
  34                 /// <returns> The first position where the two strings differ.
  35                 /// </returns>
  36                 public static int StringDifference(System.String s1, System.String s2)
  37                 {
  38                         int len1 = s1.Length;
  39                         int len2 = s2.Length;
  40                         int len = len1 < len2?len1:len2;
  41                         for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)
  42                         {
  43                                 if (s1[i] != s2[i])
  44                                 {
  45                                         return i;
  46                                 }
  47                         }
  48                         return len;
  49                 }
  50
  51
  52                 private StringHelper()
  53                 {
  54                 }
  55         }
  56 }