D - my apologies, "ptrdiff_t" was a C joke: it's just the type that a C > compiler would assign to the difference between two pd array variables (as > pointers). it's neither a pd internal nor external object, and its only > meaning is in terms of memory addresses; so it's probably not what you're > looking for. > No worries :)
> if you're talking not just about arrays of numeric values but also > symbols, you might have to turn to python or lua to compute something like > the Levenshtein distance (aka "string edit distance"). > Im interested mostly in comparing numeric arrays. > if your argument arrays are always the same length, you can probably > twiddle together a fairly simple Pd patch to compute the Hamming distance. > Yes. I was hoping someone had an advance on this. In any case ill share what i find/program. D
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