Re: forgery patch tests(fwd)

[Billy D. <bi...@da...>]

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On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Frank Tobin wrote:

> Billy Donahue, at 09:20 -0400 on Sun, 8 Oct 2000, wrote:
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> > I think this might be a bug in String::Approx.  It's obviously a mistake
> > to say that these two strings are only 5 edits of distance from each
> > other when positioned at a 34 character offset from each other.
> 
> I've sent mail to the author of String::Approx concerning this.  As a
> workaround, if we don't use symmetric borders, the problem doesn't seem to
> appear.  For example:
> 
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Well, the problem makes sense.
There needs to be a way of specifying which positions are ok for matches.
If the algorithm knew that position 34 is no far, then it would be able
to keep looking for matches..  Maybe there should be a way to specify the
minimum match length..  The match is actually only 5 characters long in
the case of the weird match you found.  It would be nice be able to tell
String::Approx to throw that match out and to keep searching.

I may have to crack open String::Approx to fix this, and I don't really
want to have to do that..


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