Compares two strings, character by character, and returns the first position where the two strings differ from one another. - CSharp System

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Compares two strings, character by character, and returns the first position where the two strings differ from one another.

Demo Code

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 * Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation
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 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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using System;

public class Main{
        /// <summary> Compares two strings, character by character, and returns the
		/// first position where the two strings differ from one another.
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="s1">The first string to compare
		/// </param>
		/// <param name="s2">The second string to compare
		/// </param>
		/// <returns> The first position where the two strings differ.
		/// </returns>
		public static int StringDifference(System.String s1, System.String s2)
		{
			int len1 = s1.Length;
			int len2 = s2.Length;
			int len = len1 < len2?len1:len2;
			for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)
			{
				if (s1[i] != s2[i])
				{
					return i;
				}
			}
			return len;
		}
}

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