Top "Edit-distance" questions

A string metric describing the differences between two strings.

Levenshtein distance in T-SQL

I am interested in algorithm in T-SQL calculating Levenshtein distance.

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Shortest path to transform one word into another

For a Data Structures project, I must find the shortest path between two words (like "cat" and "dog"), changing only …

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Change distance between x-axis ticks in ggplot2

Right now I am producing a line graph with three observations. Hence, there are three x-axis ticks. I want to …

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Similarity scores based on string comparison in R (edit distance)

I am trying to assign similarity score based on comparison between 2 strings. Is there a function for the same in …

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Figure out if a business name is very similar to another one - Python

I'm working with a large database of businesses. I'd like to be able to compare two business names for similarity …

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Word-level edit distance of a sentence

Is there an algorithm that lets you find the word-level edit distance between 2 sentences? For eg., "A Big Fat Dog" …

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Levenshtein distance: how to better handle words swapping positions?

I've had some success comparing strings using the PHP levenshtein function. However, for two strings which contain substrings that have …

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Given two strings, find if they are one edit away from each other

I came across this question recently: Given two strings, return true if they are one edit away from each other,…

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Edit distance between two graphs

I'm just wondering if, like for strings where we have the Levenshtein distance (or edit distance) between two strings, is …

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Java: Difference between two lists

My company's cat-herding application tracks a convoy of cats. Periodically, it needs to compare previousOrder to currentOrder (each is an …

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