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Compute Levenshtein distance
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/* Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation
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//based on Apache technology http://www.apache.org
public class Levenshtein {
// ****************************
// Get minimum of three values
// ****************************
private static int minimum(int a, int b, int c) {
int mi = a;
if (b < mi)
mi = b;
if (c < mi)
mi = c;
return mi;
}
// *****************************
// Compute Levenshtein distance
// *****************************
public static int distance(String s, String t) {
int d[][]; // matrix
int n; // length of s
int m; // length of t
int i; // iterates through s
int j; // iterates through t
char s_i; // ith character of s
char t_j; // jth character of t
int cost; // cost
// Step 1
n = s.length();
m = t.length();
if (n == 0)
return m;
if (m == 0)
return n;
d = new int[n + 1][m + 1];
// Step 2
for (i = 0; i <= n; i++)
d[i][0] = i;
for (j = 0; j <= m; j++)
d[0][j] = j;
// Step 3
for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
s_i = s.charAt(i - 1);
// Step 4
for (j = 1; j <= m; j++) {
t_j = t.charAt(j - 1);
// Step 5
if (s_i == t_j)
cost = 0;
else
cost = 1;
// Step 6
d[i][j] = minimum(d[i - 1][j] + 1, d[i][j - 1] + 1, d[i - 1][j - 1] + cost);
}
}
// Step 7
return d[n][m];
}
}
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