/*
Copyright (c) 2011 Andrei Mackenzie

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*/

// levenshtein distance algorithm, pulled from Andrei Mackenzie's MIT licensed.
// gist, which can be found here: https://gist.github.com/andrei-m/982927
'use strict'
// Compute the edit distance between the two given strings
module.exports = function levenshtein (a, b) {
  if (a.length === 0) return b.length
  if (b.length === 0) return a.length

  const matrix = []

  // increment along the first column of each row
  let i
  for (i = 0; i <= b.length; i++) {
    matrix[i] = [i]
  }

  // increment each column in the first row
  let j
  for (j = 0; j <= a.length; j++) {
    matrix[0][j] = j
  }

  // Fill in the rest of the matrix
  for (i = 1; i <= b.length; i++) {
    for (j = 1; j <= a.length; j++) {
      if (b.charAt(i - 1) === a.charAt(j - 1)) {
        matrix[i][j] = matrix[i - 1][j - 1]
      } else {
        matrix[i][j] = Math.min(matrix[i - 1][j - 1] + 1, // substitution
                                Math.min(matrix[i][j - 1] + 1, // insertion
                                         matrix[i - 1][j] + 1)) // deletion
      }
    }
  }

  return matrix[b.length][a.length]
}