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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 22:28:08 +0100
Subject: utils: Add string distance.
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* guix/utils.scm (string-distance): New procedure.
(string-closest): New procedure.
* tests/utils.scm ("string-distance", "string-closest"): New tests.

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
---
 tests/utils.scm | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

(limited to 'tests')

diff --git a/tests/utils.scm b/tests/utils.scm
index 62ec7e8b4c..7fcbb25552 100644
--- a/tests/utils.scm
+++ b/tests/utils.scm
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2014 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2021 Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -271,6 +272,23 @@ skip these tests."
                      string-reverse)
     (call-with-input-file temp-file get-string-all)))
 
+(test-equal "string-distance"
+  '(0 1 1 5 5)
+  (list
+   (string-distance "hello" "hello")
+   (string-distance "hello" "helo")
+   (string-distance "helo" "hello")
+   (string-distance "" "hello")
+   (string-distance "hello" "")))
+
+(test-equal "string-closest"
+  '("hello" "hello" "helo" #f)
+  (list
+   (string-closest "hello" '("hello"))
+   (string-closest "hello" '("helo" "hello" "halo"))
+   (string-closest "hello" '("kikoo" "helo" "hihihi" "halo"))
+   (string-closest "hello" '("aaaaa" "12345" "hellohello" "h"))))
+
 (test-end)
 
 (false-if-exception (delete-file temp-file))
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