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DamerauLevenshteinDistance

DamerauLevenshteinDistance[u, v]
gives the Damerau-Levenshtein distance between strings or vectors u and v.
  • DamerauLevenshteinDistance[u, v] gives the number of one-element deletions, insertions, substitutions and transpositions required to transform u to v.
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Damerau-Levenshtein distance between two strings:
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Damerau-Levenshtein distance between two vectors:
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