README.rst

Root.Redundancy.Clone

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Sibling aspects

UnreachableCode

UnusedImport

UnusedVariable

Clone

Code clones are multiple pieces of source code in your codebase that are very similar.

Tastes

Taste	Meaning	Values
ignore_using	Ignore using directives in C#.	False, True
min_clone_tokens	The number of tokens that have to be equal for it to be detected as a code clone.	20

* bold denotes default value

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Example

extern int array_a[];
extern int array_b[];

int sum_a = 0;

for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
    sum_a += array_a[i];

int average_a = sum_a / 4;

int sum_b = 0;

for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
    sum_b += array_b[i];

int average_b = sum_b / 4;

Importance

Code clones make editing more difficult due to unnecessary increases in complexity and length.

How to fix this

Usually code clones can be simplified to only one occurrence. In a lot of cases, both just use different values or variables and can be reduced to one function called with different parameters or loops.