autotyper/stringutils.cpp

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#include "stringutils.h"
// Compute Levenshtein Distance
// Martin Ettl, 2012-10-05
size_t LevenshteinDistance(const std::string &s1, const std::string &s2)
{
const size_t m(s1.size());
const size_t n(s2.size());
if (m == 0) return n;
if (n == 0) return m;
size_t *costs = new size_t[n + 1];
for (size_t k = 0; k <= n; k++) costs[k] = k;
size_t i = 0;
for (std::string::const_iterator it1 = s1.begin(); it1 != s1.end(); ++it1, ++i)
{
costs[0] = i+1;
size_t corner = i;
size_t j = 0;
for (std::string::const_iterator it2 = s2.begin(); it2 != s2.end(); ++it2, ++j)
{
size_t upper = costs[j+1];
if (*it1 == *it2)
{
costs[j+1] = corner;
}
else
{
size_t t(upper < corner ? upper : corner);
costs[j + 1] = (costs[j] < t ? costs[j] : t) + 1;
}
corner = upper;
}
}
size_t result = costs[n];
delete [] costs;
return result;
}