compare
public static DetailedDamerauLevenstheinDistance.Distance compare(String s1,
String s2)
Compute the distance between strings: the minimum number of operations
needed to transform one string into the other (insertion, deletion,
substitution of a single character, or a transposition of two adjacent
characters).
Code adapted from https://github.com/tdebatty/java-string-similarity/blob/3406d2cfd853ca385090d144eed117f636ebd304/src/main/java/info/debatty/java/stringsimilarity/Damerau.java, available under MIT License
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- Parameters:
s1 - The first string to compare.s2 - The second string to compare.- Returns:
- The computed distance.
- Throws:
NullPointerException - if s1 or s2 is null.