require 'rubygems' ## # A collection of text-wrangling methods module Gem::Text ## # Wraps +text+ to +wrap+ characters and optionally indents by +indent+ # characters def format_text(text, wrap, indent=0) result = [] work = text.dup while work.length > wrap do if work =~ /^(.{0,#{wrap}})[ \n]/ then result << $1.rstrip work.slice!(0, $&.length) else result << work.slice!(0, wrap) end end result << work if work.length.nonzero? result.join("\n").gsub(/^/, " " * indent) end # This code is based directly on the Text gem implementation # Returns a value representing the "cost" of transforming str1 into str2 def levenshtein_distance str1, str2 s = str1 t = str2 n = s.length m = t.length max = n/2 return m if (0 == n) return n if (0 == m) return n if (n - m).abs > max d = (0..m).to_a x = nil n.times do |i| e = i+1 m.times do |j| cost = (s[i] == t[j]) ? 0 : 1 x = [ d[j+1] + 1, # insertion e + 1, # deletion d[j] + cost # substitution ].min d[j] = e e = x end d[m] = x end return x end end