Class AbstractCaverphone

Encodes a string into a Caverphone value.

This is an algorithm created by the Caversham Project at the University of Otago. It implements the Caverphone 2.0 algorithm:

This class is immutable and thread-safe.

See Wikipedia - Caverphone

Inheritance

System.Object

AbstractCaverphone

Caverphone1

Caverphone2

Implements

IStringEncoder

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Syntax

public abstract class AbstractCaverphone : object, IStringEncoder

Constructors

AbstractCaverphone()

Creates an instance of the Caverphone encoder

Declaration

public AbstractCaverphone()

Methods

Encode(String)

Declaration

public abstract string Encode(string source)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	source

Returns

Type	Description
System.String

IsEncodeEqual(String, String)

Tests if the encodings of two strings are equal.

This method might be promoted to a new AbstractStringEncoder superclass.

Declaration

public virtual bool IsEncodeEqual(string str1, string str2)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	str1	First of two strings to compare.
System.String	str2	Second of two strings to compare.

Returns

Type	Description
System.Boolean	true if the encodings of these strings are identical, false otherwise.

Implements

IStringEncoder