I am attempting to compare the edit distance between two arrays. I have tried using Text:Levenshtein.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Text::Levenshtein qw(distance);
my @words = qw(four foo bar);
my @list = qw(foo fear);
my @distances = distance(@list, @words);
print "@distances\n";
#results: 3 2 0 3
I however want the results to appear as follows:
2 0 3
2 3 2
Taking the first element of @list through the array of @words and doing the same through out the rest of the elements of @list.
I plan on upscaling this to a much larger arrays.
I'm not sure to understand exactly what you meant, but I think this is what you expect :
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Text::Levenshtein qw(distance);
my @words = qw(four foo bar);
my @list = qw(foo fear);
foreach my $word (@list) {
my @distances = distance($word, @words);
print "@distances\n";
}
Taking the first element of @list
through the array of @words
and doing the same through out the rest of the elements of @list
.
You just described exactly what you need to do to get the output you would like; loop through the @list
array and for each element compute the distance for all elements of the @words
array.