public static StrAttDistribution LoadDistributionFile(string filename)
{
List <string> names = new List <string>();
List <double> lowLimit = new List <double>();
List <double> hiLimit = new List <double>();
var assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
string resourceName = assembly.GetManifestResourceNames().Single(str => str.EndsWith(filename));
using (Stream stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(resourceName))
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream))
{
while (!reader.EndOfStream)
{
var line = reader.ReadLine();
var values = line.Split(',');
names.Add(values[0]);
lowLimit.Add(double.Parse(values[1]));
hiLimit.Add(double.Parse(values[2]));
}
}
StrAttDistribution dist = new StrAttDistribution(names, lowLimit, hiLimit);
return(dist);
}
private static string ResultFromDistribution(StrAttDistribution d, bool uniform = false)
{
if (uniform) //Disregard underlying populatity of names, pretend its uniform
{
int nIdx = MathUtils.RangeUniform(0, d.Names.Count);
return(d.Names[nIdx]);
}
double bound = d.HiLimit[^ 1];
public static string GetRandomFirstName(bool uniform = false)
{
if (fnames.Equals(default(StrAttDistribution)))
{
fnames = LoadDistributionFile("FName.txt");
}
return(ResultFromDistribution(fnames, uniform));
}
