#include "levenshtein.h" //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// @brief calculate the levenshtein distance of the two strings /// /// This function implements the Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm to /// calculate a distance between strings. /// /// Basically, it says how many letters need to be swapped, substituted, /// deleted from, or added to string1, at least, to get string2. /// /// The idea is to build a distance matrix for the substrings of both /// strings. To avoid a large space complexity, only the last three rows /// are kept in memory (if swaps had the same or higher cost as one deletion /// plus one insertion, only two rows would be needed). /// /// At any stage, "i + 1" denotes the length of the current substring of /// string1 that the distance is calculated for. /// /// row2 holds the current row, row1 the previous row (i.e. for the substring /// of string1 of length "i"), and row0 the row before that. /// /// In other words, at the start of the big loop, row2[j + 1] contains the /// Damerau-Levenshtein distance between the substring of string1 of length /// "i" and the substring of string2 of length "j + 1". /// /// All the big loop does is determine the partial minimum-cost paths. /// /// It does so by calculating the costs of the path ending in characters /// i (in string1) and j (in string2), respectively, given that the last /// operation is a substitution, a swap, a deletion, or an insertion. /// /// This implementation allows the costs to be weighted: /// /// - w (as in "sWap") /// - s (as in "Substitution") /// - a (for insertion, AKA "Add") /// - d (as in "Deletion") /// /// Note that this algorithm calculates a distance _iff_ d == a. /// /// @author https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/levenshtein.c //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// int TRI_Levenshtein (char const* string1, char const* string2, int w, int s, int a, int d) { int len1 = static_cast(strlen(string1)); int len2 = static_cast(strlen(string2)); int* row0 = new int[len2 + 1]; int* row1 = new int[len2 + 1]; int* row2 = new int[len2 + 1]; for (int j = 0; j <= len2; j++) { row1[j] = j * a; } int i; for (i = 0; i < len1; i++) { int *dummy; row2[0] = (i + 1) * d; for (int j = 0; j < len2; j++) { /* substitution */ row2[j + 1] = row1[j] + s * (string1[i] != string2[j]); /* swap */ if (i > 0 && j > 0 && string1[i - 1] == string2[j] && string1[i] == string2[j - 1] && row2[j + 1] > row0[j - 1] + w) { row2[j + 1] = row0[j - 1] + w; } /* deletion */ if (row2[j + 1] > row1[j + 1] + d) { row2[j + 1] = row1[j + 1] + d; } /* insertion */ if (row2[j + 1] > row2[j] + a) { row2[j + 1] = row2[j] + a; } } dummy = row0; row0 = row1; row1 = row2; row2 = dummy; } i = row1[len2]; delete[] row0; delete[] row1; delete[] row2; return i; }