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x/cliffy/_utils/distance.ts

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export function distance(a: string, b: string): number { if (a.length == 0) { return b.length; } if (b.length == 0) { return a.length; } const matrix = []; for (let i = 0; i <= b.length; i++) { matrix[i] = [i]; } for (let j = 0; j <= a.length; j++) { matrix[0][j] = j; } for (let i = 1; i <= b.length; i++) { for (let 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, Math.min(matrix[i][j - 1] + 1, matrix[i - 1][j] + 1), ); } } } return matrix[b.length][a.length];}