Minkoo wrote: > Hi list. > > I read an article posted at Wikipedia about Levenshtein distance (aka edit > distance). > The location of the document is > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance > > In the document, a sample Ruby code goes like the following: > > class String > def levenshtein(comparator) [...] > In the code, there's a parameter called comparator which seems to be > used to > decode given parameter. But, I can't understand what exactly the comparator > is doing. I didn't examine the code, but I'd guess... you want the L. distance between two strings. One is self, and the other is the parameter named "comparator". Good luck. --