1 /* Find near-matches for strings.
2 Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This file is part of GCC.
6 GCC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
7 the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
8 Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later
11 GCC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
12 WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
13 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17 along with GCC; see the file COPYING3. If not see
18 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
22 #include "coretypes.h"
25 #include "spellcheck.h"
28 /* The Levenshtein distance is an "edit-distance": the minimal
29 number of one-character insertions, removals or substitutions
30 that are needed to change one string into another.
32 This implementation uses the Wagner-Fischer algorithm. */
35 levenshtein_distance (const char *s
, int len_s
,
36 const char *t
, int len_t
)
38 const bool debug
= false;
42 printf ("s: \"%s\" (len_s=%i)\n", s
, len_s
);
43 printf ("t: \"%s\" (len_t=%i)\n", t
, len_t
);
51 /* We effectively build a matrix where each (i, j) contains the
52 Levenshtein distance between the prefix strings s[0:j]
54 Rather than actually build an (len_t + 1) * (len_s + 1) matrix,
55 we simply keep track of the last row, v0 and a new row, v1,
56 which avoids an (len_t + 1) * (len_s + 1) allocation and memory accesses
57 in favor of two (len_s + 1) allocations. These could potentially be
58 statically-allocated if we impose a maximum length on the
59 strings of interest. */
60 edit_distance_t
*v0
= new edit_distance_t
[len_s
+ 1];
61 edit_distance_t
*v1
= new edit_distance_t
[len_s
+ 1];
63 /* The first row is for the case of an empty target string, which
64 we can reach by deleting every character in the source string. */
65 for (int i
= 0; i
< len_s
+ 1; i
++)
68 /* Build successive rows. */
69 for (int i
= 0; i
< len_t
; i
++)
73 printf ("i:%i v0 = ", i
);
74 for (int j
= 0; j
< len_s
+ 1; j
++)
75 printf ("%i ", v0
[j
]);
79 /* The initial column is for the case of an empty source string; we
80 can reach prefixes of the target string of length i
81 by inserting i characters. */
84 /* Build the rest of the row by considering neighbors to
85 the north, west and northwest. */
86 for (int j
= 0; j
< len_s
; j
++)
88 edit_distance_t cost
= (s
[j
] == t
[i
] ? 0 : 1);
89 edit_distance_t deletion
= v1
[j
] + 1;
90 edit_distance_t insertion
= v0
[j
+ 1] + 1;
91 edit_distance_t substitution
= v0
[j
] + cost
;
92 edit_distance_t cheapest
= MIN (deletion
, insertion
);
93 cheapest
= MIN (cheapest
, substitution
);
97 /* Prepare to move on to next row. */
98 for (int j
= 0; j
< len_s
+ 1; j
++)
104 printf ("final v1 = ");
105 for (int j
= 0; j
< len_s
+ 1; j
++)
106 printf ("%i ", v1
[j
]);
110 edit_distance_t result
= v1
[len_s
];
116 /* Calculate Levenshtein distance between two nil-terminated strings. */
119 levenshtein_distance (const char *s
, const char *t
)
121 return levenshtein_distance (s
, strlen (s
), t
, strlen (t
));
124 /* Given TARGET, a non-NULL string, and CANDIDATES, a non-NULL ptr to
125 an autovec of non-NULL strings, determine which element within
126 CANDIDATES has the lowest edit distance to TARGET. If there are
127 multiple elements with the same minimal distance, the first in the
130 If more than half of the letters were misspelled, the suggestion is
131 likely to be meaningless, so return NULL for this case. */
134 find_closest_string (const char *target
,
135 const auto_vec
<const char *> *candidates
)
138 gcc_assert (candidates
);
141 const char *candidate
;
142 best_match
<const char *, const char *> bm (target
);
143 FOR_EACH_VEC_ELT (*candidates
, i
, candidate
)
145 gcc_assert (candidate
);
146 bm
.consider (candidate
);
149 return bm
.get_best_meaningful_candidate ();
158 /* Verify that the levenshtein_distance (A, B) equals the expected
162 levenshtein_distance_unit_test_oneway (const char *a
, const char *b
,
163 edit_distance_t expected
)
165 edit_distance_t actual
= levenshtein_distance (a
, b
);
166 ASSERT_EQ (actual
, expected
);
170 levenshtein_distance (A, B)
172 levenshtein_distance (B, A)
173 equal the expected value, to ensure that the function is symmetric. */
176 levenshtein_distance_unit_test (const char *a
, const char *b
,
177 edit_distance_t expected
)
179 levenshtein_distance_unit_test_oneway (a
, b
, expected
);
180 levenshtein_distance_unit_test_oneway (b
, a
, expected
);
183 /* Verify that find_closest_string is sane. */
186 test_find_closest_string ()
188 auto_vec
<const char *> candidates
;
190 /* Verify that it can handle an empty vec. */
191 ASSERT_EQ (NULL
, find_closest_string ("", &candidates
));
193 /* Verify that it works sanely for non-empty vecs. */
194 candidates
.safe_push ("apple");
195 candidates
.safe_push ("banana");
196 candidates
.safe_push ("cherry");
198 ASSERT_STREQ ("apple", find_closest_string ("app", &candidates
));
199 ASSERT_STREQ ("banana", find_closest_string ("banyan", &candidates
));
200 ASSERT_STREQ ("cherry", find_closest_string ("berry", &candidates
));
201 ASSERT_EQ (NULL
, find_closest_string ("not like the others", &candidates
));
203 /* The order of the vec can matter, but it should not matter for these
205 candidates
.truncate (0);
206 candidates
.safe_push ("cherry");
207 candidates
.safe_push ("banana");
208 candidates
.safe_push ("apple");
209 ASSERT_STREQ ("apple", find_closest_string ("app", &candidates
));
210 ASSERT_STREQ ("banana", find_closest_string ("banyan", &candidates
));
211 ASSERT_STREQ ("cherry", find_closest_string ("berry", &candidates
));
212 ASSERT_EQ (NULL
, find_closest_string ("not like the others", &candidates
));
214 /* If the goal string somehow makes it into the candidate list, offering
215 it as a suggestion will be nonsensical. Verify that we don't offer such
217 ASSERT_EQ (NULL
, find_closest_string ("banana", &candidates
));
220 /* Test data for test_metric_conditions. */
222 static const char * const test_data
[] = {
227 "1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890"
230 /* Verify that levenshtein_distance appears to be a sane distance function,
231 i.e. the conditions for being a metric. This is done directly for a
232 small set of examples, using test_data above. This is O(N^3) in the size
233 of the array, due to the test for the triangle inequality, so we keep the
237 test_metric_conditions ()
239 const int num_test_cases
= sizeof (test_data
) / sizeof (test_data
[0]);
241 for (int i
= 0; i
< num_test_cases
; i
++)
243 for (int j
= 0; j
< num_test_cases
; j
++)
245 edit_distance_t dist_ij
246 = levenshtein_distance (test_data
[i
], test_data
[j
]);
248 /* Identity of indiscernibles: d(i, j) > 0 iff i == j. */
250 ASSERT_EQ (dist_ij
, 0);
252 ASSERT_TRUE (dist_ij
> 0);
254 /* Symmetry: d(i, j) == d(j, i). */
255 edit_distance_t dist_ji
256 = levenshtein_distance (test_data
[j
], test_data
[i
]);
257 ASSERT_EQ (dist_ij
, dist_ji
);
259 /* Triangle inequality. */
260 for (int k
= 0; k
< num_test_cases
; k
++)
262 edit_distance_t dist_ik
263 = levenshtein_distance (test_data
[i
], test_data
[k
]);
264 edit_distance_t dist_jk
265 = levenshtein_distance (test_data
[j
], test_data
[k
]);
266 ASSERT_TRUE (dist_ik
<= dist_ij
+ dist_jk
);
272 /* Verify levenshtein_distance for a variety of pairs of pre-canned
273 inputs, comparing against known-good values. */
276 spellcheck_c_tests ()
278 levenshtein_distance_unit_test ("", "nonempty", strlen ("nonempty"));
279 levenshtein_distance_unit_test ("saturday", "sunday", 3);
280 levenshtein_distance_unit_test ("foo", "m_foo", 2);
281 levenshtein_distance_unit_test ("hello_world", "HelloWorld", 3);
282 levenshtein_distance_unit_test
283 ("the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", "dog", 40);
284 levenshtein_distance_unit_test
285 ("the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog",
286 "the quick brown dog jumps over the lazy fox",
288 levenshtein_distance_unit_test
289 ("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit,",
290 "All your base are belong to us",
292 levenshtein_distance_unit_test ("foo", "FOO", 3);
294 test_find_closest_string ();
295 test_metric_conditions ();
298 } // namespace selftest
300 #endif /* #if CHECKING_P */