levenshtein

calculate Levenshtein distance/similarity between given strings

Parameters

levenshtein stringA :string
            stringB :string

Attributes

alignreturn aligned strings
with:charuse given filler for alignment (default: -)

Returns

  • :integer
  • :block

Examples

copy
print levenshtein "for" "fur"         ; 1
print levenshtein "one" "one"         ; 0

copy
print join.with:"\n" levenshtein .align "ACTGCACTGAC" "GCATGACTAT"
; AC-TGCACTGAC
; GCATG-ACT-AT

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