note 70796 added to function.levenshtein

From: 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. ---- Server IP: 203.220.0.234 Probable Submitter: 59.167.15.202 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.levenshtein.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/70796 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70796/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70796/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70796/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70796/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70796/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70796/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70796 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/70796 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php

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