Why does indexing a string inside of a recursive call yield a different result?
Adnan
relay.public.adnan at outlook.com
Sun May 10 10:02:18 UTC 2020
In my naive implementation of edit-distance finder, I have to
check whether the last characters of two strings match:
ulong editDistance(const string a, const string b) {
if (a.length == 0)
return b.length;
if (b.length == 0)
return a.length;
const auto delt = a[$ - 1] == b[$ - 1] ? 0 : 1;
import std.algorithm : min;
return min(
editDistance(a[0 .. $ - 1], b[0 .. $ - 1]) + delt,
editDistance(a, b[0 .. $ - 1]) + 1,
editDistance(a[0 .. $ - 1], b) + 1
);
}
This yields the expected results but if I replace delt with its
definition it always returns 1 on non-empty strings:
ulong editDistance(const string a, const string b) {
if (a.length == 0)
return b.length;
if (b.length == 0)
return a.length;
//const auto delt = a[$ - 1] == b[$ - 1] ? 0 : 1;
import std.algorithm : min;
return min(
editDistance(a[0 .. $ - 1], b[0 .. $ - 1]) + a[$ - 1] ==
b[$ - 1] ? 0 : 1, //delt,
editDistance(a, b[0 .. $ - 1]) + 1,
editDistance(a[0 .. $ - 1], b) + 1
);
}
Why does this result change?
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