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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.text.similarity;
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+
+/**
+ * An algorithm for measuring the difference between two character sequences.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * This is the number of changes needed to change one sequence into another,
+ * where each change is a single character modification (deletion, insertion
+ * or substitution).
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * @since 1.0
+ */
+public class LevenshteinDetailedDistance implements 
EditDistance<LevenshteinResults> {
+
+    /**
+     * Default instance.
+     */
+    private static final LevenshteinDetailedDistance DEFAULT_INSTANCE = new 
LevenshteinDetailedDistance();
+    /**
+     * Threshold.
+     */
+    private final Integer threshold;
+
+    /**
+     * <p>
+     * This returns the default instance that uses a version
+     * of the algorithm that does not use a threshold parameter.
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * @see LevenshteinDetailedDistance#getDefaultInstance()
+     */
+    public LevenshteinDetailedDistance() {
+        this(null);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * If the threshold is not null, distance calculations will be limited to 
a maximum length.
+     *
+     * <p>If the threshold is null, the unlimited version of the algorithm 
will be used.</p>
+     *
+     * @param threshold If this is null then distances calculations will not 
be limited. This may not be negative.
+     */
+    public LevenshteinDetailedDistance(final Integer threshold) {
+        if (threshold != null && threshold < 0) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Threshold must not be 
negative");
+        }
+        this.threshold = threshold;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * <p>Find the Levenshtein distance between two Strings.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>A higher score indicates a greater distance.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>The previous implementation of the Levenshtein distance algorithm
+     * was from <a 
href="http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm";>http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm</a></p>
+     *
+     * <p>Chas Emerick has written an implementation in Java, which avoids an 
OutOfMemoryError
+     * which can occur when my Java implementation is used with very large 
strings.<br>
+     * This implementation of the Levenshtein distance algorithm
+     * is from <a 
href="http://www.merriampark.com/ldjava.htm";>http://www.merriampark.com/ldjava.htm</a></p>
+     *
+     * <pre>
+     * distance.apply(null, *)             = IllegalArgumentException
+     * distance.apply(*, null)             = IllegalArgumentException
+     * distance.apply("","")               = 0
+     * distance.apply("","a")              = 1
+     * distance.apply("aaapppp", "")       = 7
+     * distance.apply("frog", "fog")       = 1
+     * distance.apply("fly", "ant")        = 3
+     * distance.apply("elephant", "hippo") = 7
+     * distance.apply("hippo", "elephant") = 7
+     * distance.apply("hippo", "zzzzzzzz") = 8
+     * distance.apply("hello", "hallo")    = 1
+     * </pre>
+     *
+     * @param left the first string, must not be null
+     * @param right the second string, must not be null
+     * @return result distance, or -1
+     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if either String input {@code null}
+     */
+    @Override
+    public LevenshteinResults apply(final CharSequence left, final 
CharSequence right) {
+        if (threshold != null) {
+            return limitedCompare(left, right, threshold);
+        }
+        return unlimitedCompare(left, right);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the default instance.
+     *
+     * @return the default instace
+     */
+    public static LevenshteinDetailedDistance getDefaultInstance() {
+        return DEFAULT_INSTANCE;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the distance threshold.
+     *
+     * @return the distance threshold
+     */
+    public Integer getThreshold() {
+        return threshold;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Find the Levenshtein distance between two CharSequences if it's less 
than or
+     * equal to a given threshold.
+     *
+     * <p>
+     * This implementation follows from Algorithms on Strings, Trees and
+     * Sequences by Dan Gusfield and Chas Emerick's implementation of the
+     * Levenshtein distance algorithm from <a
+     * href="http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm";
+     * >http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm</a>
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * <pre>
+     * limitedCompare(null, *, *)             = IllegalArgumentException
+     * limitedCompare(*, null, *)             = IllegalArgumentException
+     * limitedCompare(*, *, -1)               = IllegalArgumentException
+     * limitedCompare("","", 0)               = 0
+     * limitedCompare("aaapppp", "", 8)       = 7
+     * limitedCompare("aaapppp", "", 7)       = 7
+     * limitedCompare("aaapppp", "", 6))      = -1
+     * limitedCompare("elephant", "hippo", 7) = 7
+     * limitedCompare("elephant", "hippo", 6) = -1
+     * limitedCompare("hippo", "elephant", 7) = 7
+     * limitedCompare("hippo", "elephant", 6) = -1
+     * </pre>
+     *
+     * @param left the first string, must not be null
+     * @param right the second string, must not be null
+     * @param threshold the target threshold, must not be negative
+     * @return result distance, or -1
+     */
+    private static LevenshteinResults limitedCompare(CharSequence left,
+                                                     CharSequence right,
+                                                     final int threshold) { 
//NOPMD
+        if (left == null || right == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Strings must not be null");
+        }
+        if (threshold < 0) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Threshold must not be 
negative");
+        }
+
+        /*
+         * This implementation only computes the distance if it's less than or
+         * equal to the threshold value, returning -1 if it's greater. The
+         * advantage is performance: unbounded distance is O(nm), but a bound 
of
+         * k allows us to reduce it to O(km) time by only computing a diagonal
+         * stripe of width 2k + 1 of the cost table. It is also possible to use
+         * this to compute the unbounded Levenshtein distance by starting the
+         * threshold at 1 and doubling each time until the distance is found;
+         * this is O(dm), where d is the distance.
+         *
+         * One subtlety comes from needing to ignore entries on the border of
+         * our stripe eg. p[] = |#|#|#|* d[] = *|#|#|#| We must ignore the 
entry
+         * to the left of the leftmost member We must ignore the entry above 
the
+         * rightmost member
+         *
+         * Another subtlety comes from our stripe running off the matrix if the
+         * strings aren't of the same size. Since string s is always swapped to
+         * be the shorter of the two, the stripe will always run off to the
+         * upper right instead of the lower left of the matrix.
+         *
+         * As a concrete example, suppose s is of length 5, t is of length 7,
+         * and our threshold is 1. In this case we're going to walk a stripe of
+         * length 3. The matrix would look like so:
+         *
+         * <pre>
+         *    1 2 3 4 5
+         * 1 |#|#| | | |
+         * 2 |#|#|#| | |
+         * 3 | |#|#|#| |
+         * 4 | | |#|#|#|
+         * 5 | | | |#|#|
+         * 6 | | | | |#|
+         * 7 | | | | | |
+         * </pre>
+         *
+         * Note how the stripe leads off the table as there is no possible way
+         * to turn a string of length 5 into one of length 7 in edit distance 
of
+         * 1.
+         *
+         * Additionally, this implementation decreases memory usage by using 
two
+         * single-dimensional arrays and swapping them back and forth instead 
of
+         * allocating an entire n by m matrix. This requires a few minor
+         * changes, such as immediately returning when it's detected that the
+         * stripe has run off the matrix and initially filling the arrays with
+         * large values so that entries we don't compute are ignored.
+         *
+         * See Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences by Dan Gusfield for
+         * some discussion.
+         */
+
+        int n = left.length(); // length of left
+        int m = right.length(); // length of right
+
+        // if one string is empty, the edit distance is necessarily the length 
of the other
+        if (n == 0) {
+            return m <= threshold ? new LevenshteinResults(m, m, 0, 0) : new 
LevenshteinResults(-1, 0, 0, 0);
+        } else if (m == 0) {
+            return n <= threshold ? new LevenshteinResults(n, 0, n, 0) : new 
LevenshteinResults(-1, 0, 0, 0);
+        }
+
+        boolean swapped = false;
+        if (n > m) {
+            // swap the two strings to consume less memory
+            final CharSequence tmp = left;
+            left = right;
+            right = tmp;
+            n = m;
+            m = right.length();
+            swapped = true;
+        }
+
+        int[] p = new int[n + 1]; // 'previous' cost array, horizontally
+        int[] d = new int[n + 1]; // cost array, horizontally
+        int[] tempD; // placeholder to assist in swapping p and d
+        final int[][] matrix = new int[m + 1][n + 1];
+
+        //filling the first row and first column values in the matrix
+        for (int index = 0; index <= n; index++) {
+            matrix[0][index] = index;
+        }
+        for (int index = 0; index <= m; index++) {
+            matrix[index][0] = index;
+        }
+
+        // fill in starting table values
+        final int boundary = Math.min(n, threshold) + 1;
+        for (int i = 0; i < boundary; i++) {
+            p[i] = i;
+        }
+        // these fills ensure that the value above the rightmost entry of our
+        // stripe will be ignored in following loop iterations
+        Arrays.fill(p, boundary, p.length, Integer.MAX_VALUE);
+        Arrays.fill(d, Integer.MAX_VALUE);
+
+        // iterates through t
+        for (int j = 1; j <= m; j++) {
+            final char rightJ = right.charAt(j - 1); // jth character of right
+            d[0] = j;
+
+            // compute stripe indices, constrain to array size
+            final int min = Math.max(1, j - threshold);
+            final int max = j > Integer.MAX_VALUE - threshold ? n : Math.min(
+                    n, j + threshold);
+
+            // the stripe may lead off of the table if s and t are of 
different sizes
+            if (min > max) {
+                return new LevenshteinResults(-1, 0, 0, 0);
+            }
+
+            // ignore entry left of leftmost
+            if (min > 1) {
+                d[min - 1] = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
+            }
+
+            // iterates through [min, max] in s
+            for (int i = min; i <= max; i++) {
+                if (left.charAt(i - 1) == rightJ) {
+                    // diagonally left and up
+                    d[i] = p[i - 1];
+                } else {
+                    // 1 + minimum of cell to the left, to the top, diagonally 
left and up
+                    d[i] = 1 + Math.min(Math.min(d[i - 1], p[i]), p[i - 1]);
+                }
+                matrix[j][i] = d[i];
+            }
+
+            // copy current distance counts to 'previous row' distance counts
+            tempD = p;
+            p = d;
+            d = tempD;
+        }
+
+        // if p[n] is greater than the threshold, there's no guarantee on it 
being the correct distance
+        if (p[n] <= threshold) {
+            return findDetailedResults(left, right, matrix, swapped);
+        }
+        return new LevenshteinResults(-1, 0, 0, 0);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * <p>Find the Levenshtein distance between two Strings.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>A higher score indicates a greater distance.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>The previous implementation of the Levenshtein distance algorithm
+     * was from <a 
href="http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm";>http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm</a></p>
+     *
+     * <p>Chas Emerick has written an implementation in Java, which avoids an 
OutOfMemoryError
+     * which can occur when my Java implementation is used with very large 
strings.<br>
+     * This implementation of the Levenshtein distance algorithm
+     * is from <a 
href="http://www.merriampark.com/ldjava.htm";>http://www.merriampark.com/ldjava.htm</a></p>
+     *
+     * <pre>
+     * unlimitedCompare(null, *)             = IllegalArgumentException
+     * unlimitedCompare(*, null)             = IllegalArgumentException
+     * unlimitedCompare("","")               = 0
+     * unlimitedCompare("","a")              = 1
+     * unlimitedCompare("aaapppp", "")       = 7
+     * unlimitedCompare("frog", "fog")       = 1
+     * unlimitedCompare("fly", "ant")        = 3
+     * unlimitedCompare("elephant", "hippo") = 7
+     * unlimitedCompare("hippo", "elephant") = 7
+     * unlimitedCompare("hippo", "zzzzzzzz") = 8
+     * unlimitedCompare("hello", "hallo")    = 1
+     * </pre>
+     *
+     * @param left the first String, must not be null
+     * @param right the second String, must not be null
+     * @return result distance, or -1
+     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if either String input {@code null}
+     */
+    private static LevenshteinResults unlimitedCompare(CharSequence left, 
CharSequence right) {
+        if (left == null || right == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Strings must not be null");
+        }
+
+        /*
+           The difference between this impl. and the previous is that, rather
+           than creating and retaining a matrix of size s.length() + 1 by 
t.length() + 1,
+           we maintain two single-dimensional arrays of length s.length() + 1. 
 The first, d,
+           is the 'current working' distance array that maintains the newest 
distance cost
+           counts as we iterate through the characters of String s.  Each time 
we increment
+           the index of String t we are comparing, d is copied to p, the 
second int[].  Doing so
+           allows us to retain the previous cost counts as required by the 
algorithm (taking
+           the minimum of the cost count to the left, up one, and diagonally 
up and to the left
+           of the current cost count being calculated).  (Note that the arrays 
aren't really
+           copied anymore, just switched...this is clearly much better than 
cloning an array
+           or doing a System.arraycopy() each time  through the outer loop.)
+
+           Effectively, the difference between the two implementations is this 
one does not
+           cause an out of memory condition when calculating the LD over two 
very large strings.
+         */
+
+        int n = left.length(); // length of left
+        int m = right.length(); // length of right
+
+        if (n == 0) {
+            return new LevenshteinResults(m, m, 0, 0);
+        } else if (m == 0) {
+            return new LevenshteinResults(n, 0, n, 0);
+        }
+        boolean swapped = false;
+        if (n > m) {
+            // swap the input strings to consume less memory
+            final CharSequence tmp = left;
+            left = right;
+            right = tmp;
+            n = m;
+            m = right.length();
+            swapped = true;
+        }
+
+        int[] p = new int[n + 1]; // 'previous' cost array, horizontally
+        int[] d = new int[n + 1]; // cost array, horizontally
+        int[] tempD; //placeholder to assist in swapping p and d
+        final int[][] matrix = new int[m + 1][n + 1];
+
+        // filling the first row and first column values in the matrix
+        for (int index = 0; index <= n; index++) {
+            matrix[0][index] = index;
+        }
+        for (int index = 0; index <= m; index++) {
+            matrix[index][0] = index;
+        }
+
+        // indexes into strings left and right
+        int i; // iterates through left
+        int j; // iterates through right
+
+        char rightJ; // jth character of right
+
+        int cost; // cost
+        for (i = 0; i <= n; i++) {
+            p[i] = i;
+        }
+
+        for (j = 1; j <= m; j++) {
+            rightJ = right.charAt(j - 1);
+            d[0] = j;
+
+            for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
+                cost = left.charAt(i - 1) == rightJ ? 0 : 1;
+                // minimum of cell to the left+1, to the top+1, diagonally 
left and up +cost
+                d[i] = Math.min(Math.min(d[i - 1] + 1, p[i] + 1), p[i - 1] + 
cost);
+                //filling the matrix
+                matrix[j][i] = d[i];
+            }
+
+            // copy current distance counts to 'previous row' distance counts
+            tempD = p;
+            p = d;
+            d = tempD;
+        }
+        return findDetailedResults(left, right, matrix, swapped);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Finds count for each of the three [insert, delete, substitute] 
operations
+     * needed. This is based on the matrix formed based on the two character
+     * sequence.
+     *
+     * @param left character sequence which need to be converted from
+     * @param right character sequence which need to be converted to
+     * @param matrix two dimensional array containing
+     * @param swapped tells whether the value for left character sequence and 
right
+     *            character sequence were swapped to save memory
+     * @return result object containing the count of insert, delete and 
substitute and total count needed
+     */
+    private static LevenshteinResults findDetailedResults(final CharSequence 
left,
+                                                          final CharSequence 
right,
+                                                          final int[][] matrix,
+                                                          final boolean 
swapped) {
+
+        int delCount = 0;
+        int addCount = 0;
+        int subCount = 0;
+
+        int rowIndex = right.length();
+        int columnIndex = left.length();
+
+        int dataAtLeft = 0;
+        int dataAtTop = 0;
+        int dataAtDiagonal = 0;
+        int data = 0;
+        boolean deleted = false;
+        boolean added = false;
+
+        while (rowIndex >= 0 && columnIndex >= 0) {
+
+            if (columnIndex == 0) {
+                dataAtLeft = -1;
+            } else {
+                dataAtLeft = matrix[rowIndex][columnIndex - 1];
+            }
+            if (rowIndex == 0) {
+                dataAtTop = -1;
+            } else {
+                dataAtTop = matrix[rowIndex - 1][columnIndex];
+            }
+            if (rowIndex > 0 && columnIndex > 0) {
+                dataAtDiagonal = matrix[rowIndex - 1][columnIndex - 1];
+            } else {
+                dataAtDiagonal = -1;
+            }
+            if (dataAtLeft == -1 && dataAtTop == -1 && dataAtDiagonal == -1) {
+                break;
+            }
+            data = matrix[rowIndex][columnIndex];
+
+            // case in which the character at left and right are the same,
+            // in this case none of the counters will be incremented.
+            if (columnIndex > 0 && rowIndex > 0 && left.charAt(columnIndex - 
1) == right.charAt(rowIndex - 1)) {
+                columnIndex--;
+                rowIndex--;
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            // handling insert and delete cases.
+            deleted = false;
+            added = false;
+            if (data - 1 == dataAtLeft && (data <= dataAtDiagonal && data <= 
dataAtTop)
+                    || (dataAtDiagonal == -1 && dataAtTop == -1)) { // NOPMD
+                columnIndex--;
+                if (swapped) {
+                    addCount++;
+                    added = true;
+                } else {
+                    delCount++;
+                    deleted = true;
+                }
+            } else if (data - 1 == dataAtTop && (data <= dataAtDiagonal && 
data <= dataAtLeft)
+                    || (dataAtDiagonal == -1 && dataAtLeft == -1)) { // NOPMD
+                rowIndex--;
+                if (swapped) {
+                    delCount++;
+                    deleted = true;
+                } else {
+                    addCount++;
+                    added = true;
+                }
+            }
+
+            // substituted case
+            if (!added && !deleted) {
+                subCount++;
+                columnIndex--;
+                rowIndex--;
+            }
+        }
+        return new LevenshteinResults(addCount + delCount + subCount, 
addCount, delCount, subCount);
+    }
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.text.similarity;
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+
+/**
+ * An algorithm for measuring the difference between two character sequences.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * This is the number of changes needed to change one sequence into another,
+ * where each change is a single character modification (deletion, insertion
+ * or substitution).
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * This code has been adapted from Apache Commons Lang 3.3.
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * @since 1.0
+ */
+public class LevenshteinDistance implements EditDistance<Integer> {
+
+    /**
+     * Default instance.
+     */
+    private static final LevenshteinDistance DEFAULT_INSTANCE = new 
LevenshteinDistance();
+
+    /**
+     * Threshold.
+     */
+    private final Integer threshold;
+
+    /**
+     * <p>
+     * This returns the default instance that uses a version
+     * of the algorithm that does not use a threshold parameter.
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * @see LevenshteinDistance#getDefaultInstance()
+     */
+    public LevenshteinDistance() {
+        this(null);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * <p>
+     * If the threshold is not null, distance calculations will be limited to 
a maximum length.
+     * If the threshold is null, the unlimited version of the algorithm will 
be used.
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * @param threshold
+     *        If this is null then distances calculations will not be limited.
+     *        This may not be negative.
+     */
+    public LevenshteinDistance(final Integer threshold) {
+        if (threshold != null && threshold < 0) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Threshold must not be 
negative");
+        }
+        this.threshold = threshold;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * <p>Find the Levenshtein distance between two Strings.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>A higher score indicates a greater distance.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>The previous implementation of the Levenshtein distance algorithm
+     * was from <a 
href="http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm";>http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm</a></p>
+     *
+     * <p>Chas Emerick has written an implementation in Java, which avoids an 
OutOfMemoryError
+     * which can occur when my Java implementation is used with very large 
strings.<br>
+     * This implementation of the Levenshtein distance algorithm
+     * is from <a 
href="http://www.merriampark.com/ldjava.htm";>http://www.merriampark.com/ldjava.htm</a></p>
+     *
+     * <pre>
+     * distance.apply(null, *)             = IllegalArgumentException
+     * distance.apply(*, null)             = IllegalArgumentException
+     * distance.apply("","")               = 0
+     * distance.apply("","a")              = 1
+     * distance.apply("aaapppp", "")       = 7
+     * distance.apply("frog", "fog")       = 1
+     * distance.apply("fly", "ant")        = 3
+     * distance.apply("elephant", "hippo") = 7
+     * distance.apply("hippo", "elephant") = 7
+     * distance.apply("hippo", "zzzzzzzz") = 8
+     * distance.apply("hello", "hallo")    = 1
+     * </pre>
+     *
+     * @param left the first string, must not be null
+     * @param right the second string, must not be null
+     * @return result distance, or -1
+     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if either String input {@code null}
+     */
+    @Override
+    public Integer apply(final CharSequence left, final CharSequence right) {
+        if (threshold != null) {
+            return limitedCompare(left, right, threshold);
+        }
+        return unlimitedCompare(left, right);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the default instance.
+     *
+     * @return the default instace
+     */
+    public static LevenshteinDistance getDefaultInstance() {
+        return DEFAULT_INSTANCE;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the distance threshold.
+     *
+     * @return the distance threshold
+     */
+    public Integer getThreshold() {
+        return threshold;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Find the Levenshtein distance between two CharSequences if it's less 
than or
+     * equal to a given threshold.
+     *
+     * <p>
+     * This implementation follows from Algorithms on Strings, Trees and
+     * Sequences by Dan Gusfield and Chas Emerick's implementation of the
+     * Levenshtein distance algorithm from <a
+     * href="http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm";
+     * >http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm</a>
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * <pre>
+     * limitedCompare(null, *, *)             = IllegalArgumentException
+     * limitedCompare(*, null, *)             = IllegalArgumentException
+     * limitedCompare(*, *, -1)               = IllegalArgumentException
+     * limitedCompare("","", 0)               = 0
+     * limitedCompare("aaapppp", "", 8)       = 7
+     * limitedCompare("aaapppp", "", 7)       = 7
+     * limitedCompare("aaapppp", "", 6))      = -1
+     * limitedCompare("elephant", "hippo", 7) = 7
+     * limitedCompare("elephant", "hippo", 6) = -1
+     * limitedCompare("hippo", "elephant", 7) = 7
+     * limitedCompare("hippo", "elephant", 6) = -1
+     * </pre>
+     *
+     * @param left the first string, must not be null
+     * @param right the second string, must not be null
+     * @param threshold the target threshold, must not be negative
+     * @return result distance, or -1
+     */
+    private static int limitedCompare(CharSequence left, CharSequence right, 
final int threshold) { // NOPMD
+        if (left == null || right == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Strings must not be null");
+        }
+        if (threshold < 0) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Threshold must not be 
negative");
+        }
+
+        /*
+         * This implementation only computes the distance if it's less than or
+         * equal to the threshold value, returning -1 if it's greater. The
+         * advantage is performance: unbounded distance is O(nm), but a bound 
of
+         * k allows us to reduce it to O(km) time by only computing a diagonal
+         * stripe of width 2k + 1 of the cost table. It is also possible to use
+         * this to compute the unbounded Levenshtein distance by starting the
+         * threshold at 1 and doubling each time until the distance is found;
+         * this is O(dm), where d is the distance.
+         *
+         * One subtlety comes from needing to ignore entries on the border of
+         * our stripe eg. p[] = |#|#|#|* d[] = *|#|#|#| We must ignore the 
entry
+         * to the left of the leftmost member We must ignore the entry above 
the
+         * rightmost member
+         *
+         * Another subtlety comes from our stripe running off the matrix if the
+         * strings aren't of the same size. Since string s is always swapped to
+         * be the shorter of the two, the stripe will always run off to the
+         * upper right instead of the lower left of the matrix.
+         *
+         * As a concrete example, suppose s is of length 5, t is of length 7,
+         * and our threshold is 1. In this case we're going to walk a stripe of
+         * length 3. The matrix would look like so:
+         *
+         * <pre>
+         *    1 2 3 4 5
+         * 1 |#|#| | | |
+         * 2 |#|#|#| | |
+         * 3 | |#|#|#| |
+         * 4 | | |#|#|#|
+         * 5 | | | |#|#|
+         * 6 | | | | |#|
+         * 7 | | | | | |
+         * </pre>
+         *
+         * Note how the stripe leads off the table as there is no possible way
+         * to turn a string of length 5 into one of length 7 in edit distance 
of
+         * 1.
+         *
+         * Additionally, this implementation decreases memory usage by using 
two
+         * single-dimensional arrays and swapping them back and forth instead 
of
+         * allocating an entire n by m matrix. This requires a few minor
+         * changes, such as immediately returning when it's detected that the
+         * stripe has run off the matrix and initially filling the arrays with
+         * large values so that entries we don't compute are ignored.
+         *
+         * See Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences by Dan Gusfield for
+         * some discussion.
+         */
+
+        int n = left.length(); // length of left
+        int m = right.length(); // length of right
+
+        // if one string is empty, the edit distance is necessarily the length
+        // of the other
+        if (n == 0) {
+            return m <= threshold ? m : -1;
+        } else if (m == 0) {
+            return n <= threshold ? n : -1;
+        }
+
+        if (n > m) {
+            // swap the two strings to consume less memory
+            final CharSequence tmp = left;
+            left = right;
+            right = tmp;
+            n = m;
+            m = right.length();
+        }
+
+        int[] p = new int[n + 1]; // 'previous' cost array, horizontally
+        int[] d = new int[n + 1]; // cost array, horizontally
+        int[] tempD; // placeholder to assist in swapping p and d
+
+        // fill in starting table values
+        final int boundary = Math.min(n, threshold) + 1;
+        for (int i = 0; i < boundary; i++) {
+            p[i] = i;
+        }
+        // these fills ensure that the value above the rightmost entry of our
+        // stripe will be ignored in following loop iterations
+        Arrays.fill(p, boundary, p.length, Integer.MAX_VALUE);
+        Arrays.fill(d, Integer.MAX_VALUE);
+
+        // iterates through t
+        for (int j = 1; j <= m; j++) {
+            final char rightJ = right.charAt(j - 1); // jth character of right
+            d[0] = j;
+
+            // compute stripe indices, constrain to array size
+            final int min = Math.max(1, j - threshold);
+            final int max = j > Integer.MAX_VALUE - threshold ? n : Math.min(
+                    n, j + threshold);
+
+            // the stripe may lead off of the table if s and t are of different
+            // sizes
+            if (min > max) {
+                return -1;
+            }
+
+            // ignore entry left of leftmost
+            if (min > 1) {
+                d[min - 1] = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
+            }
+
+            // iterates through [min, max] in s
+            for (int i = min; i <= max; i++) {
+                if (left.charAt(i - 1) == rightJ) {
+                    // diagonally left and up
+                    d[i] = p[i - 1];
+                } else {
+                    // 1 + minimum of cell to the left, to the top, diagonally
+                    // left and up
+                    d[i] = 1 + Math.min(Math.min(d[i - 1], p[i]), p[i - 1]);
+                }
+            }
+
+            // copy current distance counts to 'previous row' distance counts
+            tempD = p;
+            p = d;
+            d = tempD;
+        }
+
+        // if p[n] is greater than the threshold, there's no guarantee on it
+        // being the correct
+        // distance
+        if (p[n] <= threshold) {
+            return p[n];
+        }
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * <p>Find the Levenshtein distance between two Strings.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>A higher score indicates a greater distance.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>The previous implementation of the Levenshtein distance algorithm
+     * was from <a 
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120526085419/http://www.merriampark.com/ldjava.htm";>
+     * 
https://web.archive.org/web/20120526085419/http://www.merriampark.com/ldjava.htm</a></p>
+     *
+     * <p>This implementation only need one single-dimensional arrays of 
length s.length() + 1</p>
+     *
+     * <pre>
+     * unlimitedCompare(null, *)             = IllegalArgumentException
+     * unlimitedCompare(*, null)             = IllegalArgumentException
+     * unlimitedCompare("","")               = 0
+     * unlimitedCompare("","a")              = 1
+     * unlimitedCompare("aaapppp", "")       = 7
+     * unlimitedCompare("frog", "fog")       = 1
+     * unlimitedCompare("fly", "ant")        = 3
+     * unlimitedCompare("elephant", "hippo") = 7
+     * unlimitedCompare("hippo", "elephant") = 7
+     * unlimitedCompare("hippo", "zzzzzzzz") = 8
+     * unlimitedCompare("hello", "hallo")    = 1
+     * </pre>
+     *
+     * @param left the first String, must not be null
+     * @param right the second String, must not be null
+     * @return result distance, or -1
+     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if either String input {@code null}
+     */
+    private static int unlimitedCompare(CharSequence left, CharSequence right) 
{
+        if (left == null || right == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Strings must not be null");
+        }
+
+        /*
+           This implementation use two variable to record the previous cost 
counts,
+           So this implementation use less memory than previous impl.
+         */
+
+        int n = left.length(); // length of left
+        int m = right.length(); // length of right
+
+        if (n == 0) {
+            return m;
+        } else if (m == 0) {
+            return n;
+        }
+
+        if (n > m) {
+            // swap the input strings to consume less memory
+            final CharSequence tmp = left;
+            left = right;
+            right = tmp;
+            n = m;
+            m = right.length();
+        }
+
+        int[] p = new int[n + 1];
+
+        // indexes into strings left and right
+        int i; // iterates through left
+        int j; // iterates through right
+        int upperLeft;
+        int upper;
+
+        char rightJ; // jth character of right
+        int cost; // cost
+
+        for (i = 0; i <= n; i++) {
+            p[i] = i;
+        }
+
+        for (j = 1; j <= m; j++) {
+            upperLeft = p[0];
+            rightJ = right.charAt(j - 1);
+            p[0] = j;
+
+            for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
+                upper = p[i];
+                cost = left.charAt(i - 1) == rightJ ? 0 : 1;
+                // minimum of cell to the left+1, to the top+1, diagonally 
left and up +cost
+                p[i] = Math.min(Math.min(p[i - 1] + 1, p[i] + 1), upperLeft + 
cost);
+                upperLeft = upper;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return p[n];
+    }
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.text.similarity;
+
+import java.util.Objects;
+
+/**
+ * Container class to store Levenshtein distance between two character 
sequences.
+ *
+ * <p>Stores the count of insert, deletion and substitute operations needed to
+ * change one character sequence into another.</p>
+ *
+ * <p>This class is immutable.</p>
+ *
+ * @since 1.0
+ */
+public class LevenshteinResults {
+    /**
+     * Edit distance.
+     */
+    private final Integer distance;
+    /**
+     * Insert character count.
+     */
+    private final Integer insertCount;
+    /**
+     * Delete character count.
+     */
+    private final Integer deleteCount;
+    /**
+     * Substitute character count.
+     */
+    private final Integer substituteCount;
+
+    /**
+     * Create the results for a detailed Levenshtein distance.
+     *
+     * @param distance distance between two character sequences.
+     * @param insertCount insert character count
+     * @param deleteCount delete character count
+     * @param substituteCount substitute character count
+     */
+    public LevenshteinResults(final Integer distance, final Integer 
insertCount, final Integer deleteCount,
+            final Integer substituteCount) {
+        this.distance = distance;
+        this.insertCount = insertCount;
+        this.deleteCount = deleteCount;
+        this.substituteCount = substituteCount;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the distance between two character sequences.
+     *
+     * @return distance between two character sequence
+     */
+    public Integer getDistance() {
+        return distance;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the number of insertion needed to change one character sequence 
into another.
+     *
+     * @return insert character count
+     */
+    public Integer getInsertCount() {
+        return insertCount;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the number of character deletion needed to change one character 
sequence to other.
+     *
+     * @return delete character count
+     */
+    public Integer getDeleteCount() {
+        return deleteCount;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the number of character substitution needed to change one character 
sequence into another.
+     *
+     * @return substitute character count
+     */
+    public Integer getSubstituteCount() {
+        return substituteCount;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean equals(final Object o) {
+        if (this == o) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        final LevenshteinResults result = (LevenshteinResults) o;
+        return Objects.equals(distance, result.distance) && 
Objects.equals(insertCount, result.insertCount)
+                && Objects.equals(deleteCount, result.deleteCount)
+                && Objects.equals(substituteCount, result.substituteCount);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int hashCode() {
+        return Objects.hash(distance, insertCount, deleteCount, 
substituteCount);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        return "Distance: " + distance + ", Insert: " + insertCount + ", 
Delete: " + deleteCount + ", Substitute: "
+                + substituteCount;
+    }
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.text.similarity;
+
+/**
+ * A similarity algorithm indicating the length of the longest common 
subsequence between two strings.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * The Longest common subsequence algorithm returns the length of the longest 
subsequence that two strings have in
+ * common. Two strings that are entirely different, return a value of 0, and 
two strings that return a value
+ * of the commonly shared length implies that the strings are completely the 
same in value and position.
+ * <i>Note.</i>  Generally this algorithm is fairly inefficient, as for length 
<i>m</i>, <i>n</i> of the input
+ * <code>CharSequence</code>'s <code>left</code> and <code>right</code> 
respectively, the runtime of the
+ * algorithm is <i>O(m*n)</i>.
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * This implementation is based on the Longest Commons Substring algorithm
+ * from <a 
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_subsequence_problem";>
+ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_subsequence_problem</a>.
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * <p>For further reading see:</p>
+ *
+ * <p>Lothaire, M. <i>Applied combinatorics on words</i>. New York: Cambridge 
U Press, 2005. <b>12-13</b></p>
+ *
+ * @since 1.0
+ */
+public class LongestCommonSubsequence implements SimilarityScore<Integer> {
+
+    /**
+     * Calculates longestCommonSubsequence similarity score of two 
<code>CharSequence</code>'s passed as
+     * input.
+     *
+     * @param left first character sequence
+     * @param right second character sequence
+     * @return longestCommonSubsequenceLength
+     * @throws IllegalArgumentException
+     *             if either String input {@code null}
+     */
+    @Override
+    public Integer apply(final CharSequence left, final CharSequence right) {
+        // Quick return for invalid inputs
+        if (left == null || right == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Inputs must not be null");
+        }
+        return logestCommonSubsequence(left, right).length();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * Computes the longestCommonSubsequence between the two 
<code>CharSequence</code>'s passed as
+     * input.
+     *
+     * <p>
+     * Note, a substring and
+     * subsequence are not necessarily the same thing. Indeed, 
<code>abcxyzqrs</code> and
+     * <code>xyzghfm</code> have both the same common substring and 
subsequence, namely <code>xyz</code>. However,
+     * <code>axbyczqrs</code> and <code>abcxyzqtv</code> have the longest 
common subsequence <code>xyzq</code> because a
+     * subsequence need not have adjacent characters.
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * <p>
+     * For reference, we give the definition of a subsequence for the reader: 
a <i>subsequence</i> is a sequence that
+     * can be derived from another sequence by deleting some elements without 
changing the order of the remaining
+     * elements.
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * @param left first character sequence
+     * @param right second character sequence
+     * @return lcsLengthArray
+     * @throws IllegalArgumentException
+     *             if either String input {@code null}
+     */
+    public CharSequence logestCommonSubsequence(final CharSequence left, final 
CharSequence right) {
+        // Quick return
+        if (left == null || right == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Inputs must not be null");
+        }
+        StringBuilder longestCommonSubstringArray = new 
StringBuilder(Math.max(left.length(), right.length()));
+        int[][] lcsLengthArray = longestCommonSubstringLengthArray(left, 
right);
+        int i = left.length() - 1;
+        int j = right.length() - 1;
+        int k = lcsLengthArray[left.length()][right.length()] - 1;
+        while (k >= 0) {
+            if (left.charAt(i) == right.charAt(j)) {
+                longestCommonSubstringArray.append(left.charAt(i));
+                i = i - 1;
+                j = j - 1;
+                k = k - 1;
+            } else if (lcsLengthArray[i + 1][j] < lcsLengthArray[i][j + 1]) {
+                i = i - 1;
+            } else {
+                j = j - 1;
+            }
+        }
+        return longestCommonSubstringArray.reverse().toString();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * Computes the lcsLengthArray for the sake of doing the actual lcs 
calculation. This is the
+     * dynamic programming portion of the algorithm, and is the reason for the 
runtime complexity being
+     * O(m*n), where m=left.length() and n=right.length().
+     *
+     * @param left first character sequence
+     * @param right second character sequence
+     * @return lcsLengthArray
+     */
+    public int[][] longestCommonSubstringLengthArray(final CharSequence left, 
final CharSequence right) {
+        int[][] lcsLengthArray = new int[left.length() + 1][right.length() + 
1];
+        for (int i = 0; i < left.length(); i++) {
+            for (int j = 0; j < right.length(); j++) {
+                if (i == 0) {
+                    lcsLengthArray[i][j] = 0;
+                }
+                if (j == 0) {
+                    lcsLengthArray[i][j] = 0;
+                }
+                if (left.charAt(i) == right.charAt(j)) {
+                    lcsLengthArray[i + 1][j + 1] = lcsLengthArray[i][j] + 1;
+                } else {
+                    lcsLengthArray[i + 1][j + 1] = Math.max(lcsLengthArray[i + 
1][j], lcsLengthArray[i][j + 1]);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return lcsLengthArray;
+    }
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.text.similarity;
+
+/**
+ * An edit distance algorithm based on the length of the longest common 
subsequence between two strings.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * This code is directly based upon the implementation in {@link 
LongestCommonSubsequence}.
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * For reference see: <a 
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_subsequence_problem";>
+ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_subsequence_problem</a>.
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * <p>For further reading see:</p>
+ *
+ * <p>Lothaire, M. <i>Applied combinatorics on words</i>. New York: Cambridge 
U Press, 2005. <b>12-13</b></p>
+ *
+ * @since 1.0
+ */
+public class LongestCommonSubsequenceDistance implements EditDistance<Integer> 
{
+
+    /**
+     * Object for calculating the longest common subsequence that we can then 
normalize in apply.
+     */
+    private final LongestCommonSubsequence longestCommonSubsequence = new 
LongestCommonSubsequence();
+
+    /**
+     * Calculates an edit distance between two <code>CharSequence</code>'s 
<code>left</code> and
+     * <code>right</code> as: <code>left.length() + right.length() - 2 * 
LCS(left, right)</code>, where
+     * <code>LCS</code> is given in {@link 
LongestCommonSubsequence#apply(CharSequence, CharSequence)}.
+     *
+     * @param left first character sequence
+     * @param right second character sequence
+     * @return distance
+     * @throws IllegalArgumentException
+     *             if either String input {@code null}
+     */
+    @Override
+    public Integer apply(final CharSequence left, final CharSequence right) {
+        // Quick return for invalid inputs
+        if (left == null || right == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Inputs must not be null");
+        }
+        return left.length() + right.length() - 2 * 
longestCommonSubsequence.apply(left, right);
+    }
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.text.similarity;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+
+/**
+ * A simple word tokenizer that utilizes regex to find words. It applies a 
regex
+ * {@code}(\w)+{@code} over the input text to extract words from a given 
character
+ * sequence.
+ *
+ * @since 1.0
+ */
+class RegexTokenizer implements Tokenizer<CharSequence> {
+
+    /**
+     * {@inheritDoc}
+     *
+     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the input text is blank
+     */
+    @Override
+    public CharSequence[] tokenize(final CharSequence text) {
+        if (text == null || text.toString().trim().equals("")) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid text");
+        }
+        final Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("(\\w)+");
+        final Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(text.toString());
+        final List<String> tokens = new ArrayList<>();
+        while (matcher.find()) {
+            tokens.add(matcher.group(0));
+        }
+        return tokens.toArray(new String[0]);
+    }
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.text.similarity;
+
+/**
+ * Interface for the concept of a string similarity score.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * A string similarity score is intended to have <i>some</i> of the properties 
of a metric, yet
+ * allowing for exceptions, namely the Jaro-Winkler similarity score.
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * We Define a SimilarityScore to be a function <code>d: [X * X] -&gt; [0, 
INFINITY)</code> with the
+ * following properties:
+ * </p>
+ * <ul>
+ *     <li><code>d(x,y) &gt;= 0</code>, non-negativity or separation axiom</li>
+ *     <li><code>d(x,y) == d(y,x)</code>, symmetry.</li>
+ * </ul>
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * Notice, these are two of the properties that contribute to d being a metric.
+ * </p>
+ *
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * Further, this intended to be BiFunction&lt;CharSequence, CharSequence, 
R&gt;.
+ * The <code>apply</code> method
+ * accepts a pair of {@link CharSequence} parameters
+ * and returns an <code>R</code> type similarity score. We have ommitted the 
explicit
+ * statement of extending BiFunction due to it only being implemented in Java 
1.8, and we
+ * wish to maintain Java 1.7 compatibility.
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * @param <R> The type of similarity score unit used by this EditDistance.
+ * @since 1.0
+ */
+public interface SimilarityScore<R> {
+
+    /**
+     * Compares two CharSequences.
+     *
+     * @param left the first CharSequence
+     * @param right the second CharSequence
+     * @return the similarity score between two CharSequences
+     */
+    R apply(CharSequence left, CharSequence right);
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.text.similarity;
+
+/**
+ * <p>
+ * This stores a {@link SimilarityScore} implementation and a {@link 
CharSequence} "left" string.
+ * The {@link #apply(CharSequence right)} method accepts the "right" string 
and invokes the
+ * comparison function for the pair of strings.
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * The following is an example which finds the most similar string:
+ * </p>
+ * <pre>
+ * SimilarityScore&lt;Integer&gt; similarityScore = new LevenshteinDistance();
+ * String target = "Apache";
+ * SimilarityScoreFrom&lt;Integer&gt; similarityScoreFrom =
+ *     new SimilarityScoreFrom&lt;Integer&gt;(similarityScore, target);
+ * String mostSimilar = null;
+ * Integer shortestDistance = null;
+ *
+ * for (String test : new String[] { "Appaloosa", "a patchy", "apple" }) {
+ *     Integer distance = similarityScoreFrom.apply(test);
+ *     if (shortestDistance == null || distance &lt; shortestDistance) {
+ *         shortestDistance = distance;
+ *         mostSimilar = test;
+ *     }
+ * }
+ *
+ * System.out.println("The string most similar to \"" + target + "\" "
+ *     + "is \"" + mostSimilar + "\" because "
+ *     + "its distance is only " + shortestDistance + ".");
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ * @param <R> This is the type of similarity score used by the SimilarityScore 
function.
+ * @since 1.0
+ */
+public class SimilarityScoreFrom<R> {
+
+    /**
+     * Similarity score.
+     */
+    private final SimilarityScore<R> similarityScore;
+    /**
+     * Left parameter used in distance function.
+     */
+    private final CharSequence left;
+
+    /**
+     * <p>This accepts the similarity score implementation and the "left" 
string.</p>
+     *
+     * @param similarityScore This may not be null.
+     * @param left This may be null here,
+     *             but the SimilarityScore#compare(CharSequence left, 
CharSequence right)
+     *             implementation may not accept nulls.
+     */
+    public SimilarityScoreFrom(final SimilarityScore<R> similarityScore, final 
CharSequence left) {
+        if (similarityScore == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("The edit distance may not be 
null.");
+        }
+
+        this.similarityScore = similarityScore;
+        this.left = left;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * <p>
+     * This compares "left" field against the "right" parameter
+     * using the "similarity score" implementation.
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * @param right the second CharSequence
+     * @return the similarity score between two CharSequences
+     */
+    public R apply(final CharSequence right) {
+        return similarityScore.apply(left, right);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the left parameter.
+     *
+     * @return the left parameter
+     */
+    public CharSequence getLeft() {
+        return left;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the edit distance.
+     *
+     * @return the edit distance
+     */
+    public SimilarityScore<R> getSimilarityScore() {
+        return similarityScore;
+    }
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.text.similarity;
+
+/**
+ * A tokenizer. Can produce arrays of tokens from a given type.
+ *
+ * @param <T> given type
+ * @since 1.0
+ */
+interface Tokenizer<T> {
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an array of tokens.
+     *
+     * @param text input text
+     * @return array of tokens
+     */
+    T[] tokenize(CharSequence text);
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+/**
+ * <p>Provides algorithms for string similarity.</p>
+ *
+ * <p>The algorithms that implement the EditDistance interface follow the same
+ * simple principle: the more similar (closer) strings are, lower is the 
distance.
+ * For example, the words house and hose are closer than house and 
trousers.</p>
+ *
+ * <p>The following algorithms are available at the moment:</p>
+ *
+ * <ul>
+ * <li>{@link org.apache.commons.text.similarity.CosineDistance Cosine 
Distance}</li>
+ * <li>{@link org.apache.commons.text.similarity.CosineSimilarity Cosine 
Similarity}</li>
+ * <li>{@link org.apache.commons.text.similarity.FuzzyScore Fuzzy Score}</li>
+ * <li>{@link org.apache.commons.text.similarity.HammingDistance Hamming 
Distance}</li>
+ * <li>{@link org.apache.commons.text.similarity.JaroWinklerDistance 
Jaro-Winkler Distance}</li>
+ * <li>{@link org.apache.commons.text.similarity.LevenshteinDistance 
Levenshtein Distance}</li>
+ * <li>{@link 
org.apache.commons.text.similarity.LongestCommonSubsequenceDistance
+ * Longest Commons Subsequence Distance}</li>
+ * </ul>
+ *
+ * <p>The {@link org.apache.commons.text.similarity.CosineDistance Cosine 
Distance}
+ * utilises a {@link org.apache.commons.text.similarity.RegexTokenizer regular 
expression tokenizer (\w+)}.
+ * And the {@link org.apache.commons.text.similarity.LevenshteinDistance 
Levenshtein Distance}'s
+ * behaviour can be changed to take into consideration a maximum 
throughput.</p>
+ *
+ * @since 1.0
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.text.similarity;

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.text.translate;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.Writer;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * Executes a sequence of translators one after the other. Execution ends 
whenever 
+ * the first translator consumes codepoints from the input.
+ *
+ * @since 1.0
+ */
+public class AggregateTranslator extends CharSequenceTranslator {
+
+    private final List<CharSequenceTranslator> translators = new ArrayList<>();
+
+    /**
+     * Specify the translators to be used at creation time. 
+     *
+     * @param translators CharSequenceTranslator array to aggregate
+     */
+    public AggregateTranslator(final CharSequenceTranslator... translators) {
+        if (translators != null) {
+            for (CharSequenceTranslator translator : translators) {
+                if (translator != null) {
+                    this.translators.add(translator);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The first translator to consume codepoints from the input is the 
'winner'. 
+     * Execution stops with the number of consumed codepoints being returned. 
+     * {@inheritDoc}
+     */
+    @Override
+    public int translate(final CharSequence input, final int index, final 
Writer out) throws IOException {
+        for (final CharSequenceTranslator translator : translators) {
+            final int consumed = translator.translate(input, index, out);
+            if(consumed != 0) {
+                return consumed;
+            }
+        }
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.text.translate;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.StringWriter;
+import java.io.Writer;
+import java.util.Locale;
+
+/**
+ * An API for translating text. 
+ * Its core use is to escape and unescape text. Because escaping and 
unescaping 
+ * is completely contextual, the API does not present two separate signatures.
+ *
+ * @since 1.0
+ */
+public abstract class CharSequenceTranslator {
+
+    static final char[] HEX_DIGITS = new char[] 
{'0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','A','B','C','D','E','F'};
+
+    /**
+     * Translate a set of codepoints, represented by an int index into a 
CharSequence, 
+     * into another set of codepoints. The number of codepoints consumed must 
be returned, 
+     * and the only IOExceptions thrown must be from interacting with the 
Writer so that 
+     * the top level API may reliably ignore StringWriter IOExceptions. 
+     *
+     * @param input CharSequence that is being translated
+     * @param index int representing the current point of translation
+     * @param out Writer to translate the text to
+     * @return int count of codepoints consumed
+     * @throws IOException if and only if the Writer produces an IOException
+     */
+    public abstract int translate(CharSequence input, int index, Writer out) 
throws IOException;
+
+    /**
+     * Helper for non-Writer usage. 
+     * @param input CharSequence to be translated
+     * @return String output of translation
+     */
+    public final String translate(final CharSequence input) {
+        if (input == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        try {
+            final StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(input.length() * 2);
+            translate(input, writer);
+            return writer.toString();
+        } catch (final IOException ioe) {
+            // this should never ever happen while writing to a StringWriter
+            throw new RuntimeException(ioe);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Translate an input onto a Writer. This is intentionally final as its 
algorithm is 
+     * tightly coupled with the abstract method of this class. 
+     *
+     * @param input CharSequence that is being translated
+     * @param out Writer to translate the text to
+     * @throws IOException if and only if the Writer produces an IOException
+     */
+    public final void translate(final CharSequence input, final Writer out) 
throws IOException {
+        if (out == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("The Writer must not be null");
+        }
+        if (input == null) {
+            return;
+        }
+        int pos = 0;
+        final int len = input.length();
+        while (pos < len) {
+            final int consumed = translate(input, pos, out);
+            if (consumed == 0) {
+                // inlined implementation of 
Character.toChars(Character.codePointAt(input, pos))
+                // avoids allocating temp char arrays and duplicate checks
+                final char c1 = input.charAt(pos);
+                out.write(c1);
+                pos++;
+                if (Character.isHighSurrogate(c1) && pos < len) {
+                    final char c2 = input.charAt(pos);
+                    if (Character.isLowSurrogate(c2)) {
+                      out.write(c2);
+                      pos++;
+                    }
+                }
+                continue;
+            }
+            // contract with translators is that they have to understand 
codepoints
+            // and they just took care of a surrogate pair
+            for (int pt = 0; pt < consumed; pt++) {
+                pos += Character.charCount(Character.codePointAt(input, pos));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Helper method to create a merger of this translator with another set of 
+     * translators. Useful in customizing the standard functionality.
+     *
+     * @param translators CharSequenceTranslator array of translators to merge 
with this one
+     * @return CharSequenceTranslator merging this translator with the others
+     */
+    public final CharSequenceTranslator with(final CharSequenceTranslator... 
translators) {
+        final CharSequenceTranslator[] newArray = new 
CharSequenceTranslator[translators.length + 1];
+        newArray[0] = this;
+        System.arraycopy(translators, 0, newArray, 1, translators.length);
+        return new AggregateTranslator(newArray);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * <p>Returns an upper case hexadecimal <code>String</code> for the given
+     * character.</p>
+     *
+     * @param codepoint The codepoint to convert.
+     * @return An upper case hexadecimal <code>String</code>
+     */
+    public static String hex(final int codepoint) {
+        return Integer.toHexString(codepoint).toUpperCase(Locale.ENGLISH);
+    }
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.text.translate;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.Writer;
+
+/**
+ * Helper subclass to CharSequenceTranslator to allow for translations that 
+ * will replace up to one character at a time.
+ *
+ * @since 1.0
+ */
+public abstract class CodePointTranslator extends CharSequenceTranslator {
+
+    /**
+     * Implementation of translate that maps onto the abstract translate(int, 
Writer) method. 
+     * {@inheritDoc}
+     */
+    @Override
+    public final int translate(final CharSequence input, final int index, 
final Writer out) throws IOException {
+        final int codepoint = Character.codePointAt(input, index);
+        final boolean consumed = translate(codepoint, out);
+        return consumed ? 1 : 0; 
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Translate the specified codepoint into another. 
+     * 
+     * @param codepoint int character input to translate
+     * @param out Writer to optionally push the translated output to
+     * @return boolean as to whether translation occurred or not
+     * @throws IOException if and only if the Writer produces an IOException
+     */
+    public abstract boolean translate(int codepoint, Writer out) throws 
IOException;
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.text.translate;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.CharUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.Writer;
+
+/**
+ * This class holds inner classes for escaping/unescaping Comma Separated 
Values.
+ */
+public class CsvTranslators {
+
+    private static final char CSV_DELIMITER = ',';
+    private static final char CSV_QUOTE = '"';
+    private static final String CSV_QUOTE_STR = String.valueOf(CSV_QUOTE);
+    private static final String CSV_ESCAPED_QUOTE_STR = CSV_QUOTE_STR + 
CSV_QUOTE_STR;
+    private static final char[] CSV_SEARCH_CHARS =
+            new char[] {CSV_DELIMITER, CSV_QUOTE, CharUtils.CR, CharUtils.LF};
+
+    private CsvTranslators() { }
+
+    /**
+     * Translator for escaping Comma Separated Values.
+     */
+    public static class CsvEscaper extends SinglePassTranslator {
+
+        @Override
+        void translateWhole(final CharSequence input, final Writer out) throws 
IOException {
+            final String inputSting = input.toString();
+            if (StringUtils.containsNone(inputSting, CSV_SEARCH_CHARS)) {
+                out.write(inputSting);
+            } else {
+                // input needs quoting
+                out.write(CSV_QUOTE);
+                out.write(StringUtils.replace(inputSting, CSV_QUOTE_STR, 
CSV_ESCAPED_QUOTE_STR));
+                out.write(CSV_QUOTE);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Translator for unescaping escaped Comma Separated Value entries.
+     */
+    public static class CsvUnescaper extends SinglePassTranslator {
+
+        @Override
+        void translateWhole(final CharSequence input, final Writer out) throws 
IOException {
+            // is input not quoted?
+            if (input.charAt(0) != CSV_QUOTE || input.charAt(input.length() - 
1) != CSV_QUOTE) {
+                out.write(input.toString());
+                return;
+            }
+
+            // strip quotes
+            final String quoteless = input.subSequence(1, input.length() - 
1).toString();
+
+            if (StringUtils.containsAny(quoteless, CSV_SEARCH_CHARS)) {
+                // deal with escaped quotes; ie) ""
+                out.write(StringUtils.replace(quoteless, 
CSV_ESCAPED_QUOTE_STR, CSV_QUOTE_STR));
+            } else {
+                out.write(input.toString());
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
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