| /* |
| Copyright (c) 2011 Andrei Mackenzie |
| |
| Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of |
| this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in |
| the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to |
| use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of |
| the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, |
| subject to the following conditions: |
| |
| The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all |
| copies or substantial portions of the Software. |
| |
| THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR |
| IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS |
| FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR |
| COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER |
| IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN |
| CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. |
| */ |
| |
| // levenshtein distance algorithm, pulled from Andrei Mackenzie's MIT licensed. |
| // gist, which can be found here: https://gist.github.com/andrei-m/982927 |
| 'use strict' |
| // Compute the edit distance between the two given strings |
| module.exports = function levenshtein (a, b) { |
| if (a.length === 0) return b.length |
| if (b.length === 0) return a.length |
| |
| const matrix = [] |
| |
| // increment along the first column of each row |
| let i |
| for (i = 0; i <= b.length; i++) { |
| matrix[i] = [i] |
| } |
| |
| // increment each column in the first row |
| let j |
| for (j = 0; j <= a.length; j++) { |
| matrix[0][j] = j |
| } |
| |
| // Fill in the rest of the matrix |
| for (i = 1; i <= b.length; i++) { |
| for (j = 1; j <= a.length; j++) { |
| if (b.charAt(i - 1) === a.charAt(j - 1)) { |
| matrix[i][j] = matrix[i - 1][j - 1] |
| } else { |
| matrix[i][j] = Math.min(matrix[i - 1][j - 1] + 1, // substitution |
| Math.min(matrix[i][j - 1] + 1, // insertion |
| matrix[i - 1][j] + 1)) // deletion |
| } |
| } |
| } |
| |
| return matrix[b.length][a.length] |
| } |