A lightning-fast .NET library for generating simple markov chains

Used in Jahrbuch's "Monika" Discord bot

This package is available on NuGet. Just search 'MarkovNextGen'

You can also download MarkovNextGen.dll from my website (Coming Soon!).

To create a new Markov generator, you can specify a chain file or use the default markov.pdo

using MarkovNextGen;

var default = new Markov(); // uses markov.pdo
var special = new Markov("myfile.pdo");

You can train the generator a variety of ways - with lines of text, a key and list of words, a whole new chain, etc.

var generator = new Markov();

generator.AddToChain("a quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog"); // Just a line of text

var newchain = MarkovUtilities.ReadChain("somefile.pdo");
generator.AddToChain(newchain);		// Passing in a new chain

You can generate strings based on length, starting word, or any combination thereof

var generator = new Markov();

generator.AddToChain("a quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog");

var gen1 = generator.Generate(5, "fox");	// 5 word chain starting with "fox"
var gen2 = generator.Generate(5);			// 5 word chain with random starting word
var gen3 = generator.Generate("fox");		// Automatic-length chain starting with "fox"
var gen4 = generator.Generate();			// Automatic-length chain with random starting word

You can refer to the full documentation (Coming Soon!) for more details

The lastest version of the Markov class adds a lot of improvements in efficiency. It can train from a 400 line text file and serialize to a 4500 line chain file all in under a second

The static methods in the MarkovUtilities class aren't as efficient, but they allow direct manipulation of chains without needing an instance of the Markov class.