Levenshtein Distance Algorithm-String Comparison

Hi,

In Levenshtein distance, zero means they are same. In general, this means smaller the value, the more similar. However output of the activity seems from the following expression.

output = 100 * (Max(L1, L2) - D) / Max(L1, L2)

L1: Length of String1, L2: Length of String2, D:Levenshtein distance

So 100 means they are same and smaller the value, the less similar .

My question is,  Is the above expression is right? If so, I think it's better to specify this in the manual.

Regards,

Hi Ekankika,

Thanks a million for your work - its very useful. I have a question regarding the output value. Usually, the max distance is 2 - acceptable for matching. However, I get different outputs when changing 2 characters in various example. Do you have a value for the acceptable value for the output of the activity? For example, 60 means 50% match etc or character difference of 2 etc.?

Please let me know asap. Thanks,

Arsha