distanceStringLevenshtein {CEGO}

Levenshtein Distance for Strings

Description

Number of insertions, deletions and substitutions to transform one string into another

Usage

distanceStringLevenshtein(x, y)

Arguments

x

first string (class: character)

y

second string (class: character)

Value

numeric distance value

d(x,y)

Examples

distanceStringLevenshtein("ABCD","AACC")