note 70796 added to function.levenshtein
| From: | carey at NOSPAM dot internode dot net dot au | Date: | Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:06:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 70796 added to function.levenshtein | ||
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I have found that levenshtein is actually case-sensitive (in PHP 4.4.2 at least).
<?php
$distance=levenshtein('hello','ELLO');
echo "$distance";
?>
Outputs: "5", instead of "1". If you are implementing a fuzzy search feature
that makes use of levenshtein, you will probably need to find a way to work around this.
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