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<?php
namespace FaizShukri\Quran\Supports;
class Levenshtein
{
public function closest($input, array $words)
// no shortest distance found, yet
$shortest = -1;
$match = [];
// loop through words to find the closest
foreach ($words as $word) {
// calculate the distance between the input word,
// and the current word
$lev = levenshtein(strtolower($input), strtolower($word), 1, 2, 3);
// check for an exact match
if ($lev == 0) {
// closest word is this one (exact match)
$match = [$word];
// $closest = $word;
$shortest = 0;
// break out of the loop; we've found an exact match
break;
}
// if this distance is less than the next found shortest
// distance, OR if a next shortest word has not yet been found
if ($lev < $shortest || $shortest < 0) {
// set the closest match, and shortest distance
$shortest = $lev;
} elseif ($lev == $shortest) {
$match[] = $word;
if ($shortest > 6) {
return [];
return $match;