Commons Lang + Improved getLevenshtein() implementation

[Henri Yandell <ba...@apache.org>]

Back in October 2003, Chas submitted an improved implementation of the 
getLevenshtein method in Jakarta Commons Lang's StringUtils class. By the 
looks of the history, I then failed to apply it. My apologies for that.

Cedrik posted an issue reminding us of this fact, and finally we've 
applied the patch, though we've used the version from 
"http://www.merriampark.com/ldjava.htm" rather than the original email. 
I presume it's the more up to date and I'm assuming that Chas is still 
happy for us to use the code. Let me know if that's not the case, Chas.

Mostly though, I wanted to thank all three of you for your involvement. 
Michael for the original implementation, Chas for the optimised one and 
Cedrik for following up so well.

The code should go out in Commons Lang 2.2 at some point in the coming 
months.

Thanks,

Hen

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Re: Commons Lang + Improved getLevenshtein() implementation

[Chas Emerick <ce...@snowtide.com>]

Henri,

Well, better late than never!  It's good of you to follow up -- I had  
forgotten about that code a long time ago.  I've continued to use my  
version since it didn't show up in commons after a month or so, and I  
just never remembered to circle back about it.

Yes, by all means, use the code.

Thanks,

Chas Emerick
Founder, Snowtide Informatics Systems
Enterprise-class PDF content extraction

cemerick@snowtide.com
http://snowtide.com


On Mar 14, 2006, at 1:23 AM, Henri Yandell wrote:

>
> Back in October 2003, Chas submitted an improved implementation of  
> the getLevenshtein method in Jakarta Commons Lang's StringUtils  
> class. By the looks of the history, I then failed to apply it. My  
> apologies for that.
>
> Cedrik posted an issue reminding us of this fact, and finally we've  
> applied the patch, though we've used the version from "http:// 
> www.merriampark.com/ldjava.htm" rather than the original email. I  
> presume it's the more up to date and I'm assuming that Chas is  
> still happy for us to use the code. Let me know if that's not the  
> case, Chas.
>
> Mostly though, I wanted to thank all three of you for your  
> involvement. Michael for the original implementation, Chas for the  
> optimised one and Cedrik for following up so well.
>
> The code should go out in Commons Lang 2.2 at some point in the  
> coming months.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hen


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