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Rob Tompkins commented on TEXT-103: ----------------------------------- Go for it...it's all yours. :-) > Add provision to change the cost for insert, delete and replace operation in > levenshtein distance > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: TEXT-103 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEXT-103 > Project: Commons Text > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Rohit Agarwal > Priority: Minor > Labels: newbie, patch > Fix For: 1.x > > Original Estimate: 48h > Remaining Estimate: 48h > > There are two implementation of levenshtein distance, unlimitedCompare and > limitedCompare. > I propose to generalise the levenshtein distance by adding an option to > change the value of > 1) Addition of Character. > 2) Deletion of Character. > 3) Substitution of Character. > Currently they are all set to 1. For backward compatibility this will be the > default case. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)