Does not handle non-alphanumerics properly

GlobalNamesArchitecture / damerau-levenshtein

Calculates edit distance using Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm

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Closed Muon closed 12 years ago

Muon commented 12 years ago

irb(main):001:0> require 'damerau-levenshtein'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> DamerauLevenshtein.distance('abc', '-')
=> 0

dimus commented 12 years ago

It does not seem to be an issue with nonalphanumeric characters, but rather a case of https://github.com/GlobalNamesArchitecture/damerau-levenshtein/issues/2 where one of the strings is a single character.