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Hello everyone,

I been reading a bit about Levenshtein distance algorithm (edit distance) from http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm site. I'm pretty clear with how the algorithm works but I've no idea how to edit ( edit here as in edit , delete, insert a word or words) after i've gotten the distance. Can anybody point me out what i'm missing here ? It's like I followed a few steps and managed to get the distance between two strings but using that distance what i'm supposed to do next ? Thanks all in advance and will be looking for any input on this.

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Edit what? A string? What does editing a string have to do with measuring the distance of two strings? What are you trying to do? Why do you want to compute the distance?

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