Abstract  Code clones are described as a part of the program which is completely or partially similar to the other portions. In the earlier research the code clones have been dete cted using fingerprinting technique. The major chal lenge in our work was to group the code clones based on similarity measur e. The proposed system measures the similarity based on similarity distance. The defined expression considers two para meters for calculating the similarity measure namely the similarity distance and the population of the clone. Thereby t he code clones are clustered and ranked on the basi s of their similarity measures. Indexing is used to interactively identif y the clones which are caused due to inconsistent c hanges. As a result of this work all the identical clusters for most similar an d more similar categories are identified.

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