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// Copyright 2018-2024 the Deno authors. All rights reserved. MIT license.// This module is browser compatible.import { levenshteinDistance } from "./levenshtein_distance.ts";import { assert } from "../assert/assert.ts";
// NOTE: this metric may change in future versions (e.g. better than levenshteinDistance)const getWordDistance = levenshteinDistance;
/** * get most-similar word * * @example * ```ts * import { closestString } from "https://deno.land/std@$STD_VERSION/text/closest_string.ts"; * * const possibleWords: string[] = ["length", "size", "blah", "help"]; * * // case-insensitive by default * const word = closestString("hep", possibleWords); * ``` * * @param givenWord - The string to measure distance against * @param possibleWords - The string-array that will be sorted * @param options.caseSensitive - Flag indicating whether the distance should include case. Default is false. * @returns A sorted copy of possibleWords * @note * the ordering of words may change with version-updates * e.g. word-distance metric may change (improve) * use a named-distance (e.g. levenshteinDistance) to * guarantee a particular ordering */export function closestString(  givenWord: string,  possibleWords: string[],  options?: {    caseSensitive?: boolean;  },): string {  assert(    possibleWords.length > 0,    `When using closestString(), the possibleWords array must contain at least one word`,  );  const { caseSensitive } = { ...options };
  if (!caseSensitive) {    givenWord = givenWord.toLowerCase();  }
  let nearestWord = possibleWords[0]!;  let closestStringDistance = Infinity;  for (const each of possibleWords) {    const distance = caseSensitive      ? getWordDistance(givenWord, each)      : getWordDistance(givenWord, each.toLowerCase());    if (distance < closestStringDistance) {      nearestWord = each;      closestStringDistance = distance;    }  }  // this distance metric could be swapped/improved in the future  return nearestWord;}