Question

Is there any way to use Levenshtein Distance with an array
for example i have a div with multiple text

<div>one,two,three,longtext,anything</div>

and an input

<input type="text"> // sometext

What im trying to do is measure each one separated by comma with the text in the input. i have tried jquery .split() but it turns up undefined or im doing something wrong there.

Answer 1

You don’t need jQuery for everything. You can split a string using the native s.split(","), where s is the string you want to split.

For example, provided the function levenshtein takes two arguments and returns their levenshtein disttance, you could use the following code:

HTML:

<div id="mydiv">one,two,three,longtext,anything</div>
<input id="comparison" type="text">

JS:

var arr = $('#mydiv').html().split(",");
for(var i = 0;i < arr.length; i++){
    console.log("distance " + arr[i] + " to " $('#comparison').val() + ":" + levenshtein(arr[i], $('#comparison').val());
}