Hello,

Some time ago, Walter mentioned that it might be possible to contribute code to Phobos.  He specified three possible ways of doing so, the first option was public domain.  I have written a simple implementation of the Levenshtein Distance algorithm for two strings which I am contributing to the public domain for possible use by Digital Mars or anyone else in case anyone is interested.  It is attached to this message, along with a few simple tests.  The implementation should be sound; I also tested it against a file of over 100,000 words and their pronunciations.  The result was in every case identical to the PHP implementation of Levenshtein function (see http://us2.php.net/levenshtein).

LaggedOnUser

Reply to LaggedOnUser,

> Hello,
> 
> Some time ago, Walter mentioned that it might be possible to
> contribute code to Phobos.  He specified three possible ways of doing
> so, the first option was public domain.  I have written a simple
> implementation of the Levenshtein Distance algorithm for two strings
> which I am contributing to the public domain for possible use by
> Digital Mars or anyone else in case anyone is interested.  It is
> attached to this message, along with a few simple tests.  The
> implementation should be sound; I also tested it against a file of
> over 100,000 words and their pronunciations.  The result was in every
> case identical to the PHP implementation of Levenshtein function (see
> http://us2.php.net/levenshtein).
> 
> LaggedOnUser
> 

If you would like, I could arange for this to be added to "Scrapple".

http://www.dsource.org/projects/scrapple/