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    017package org.apache.commons.text.similarity;
    018
    019/**
    020 * An edit distance algorithm based on the length of the longest common subsequence between two strings.
    021 *
    022 * <p>
    023 * This code is directly based upon the implementation in {@link LongestCommonSubsequence}.
    024 * </p>
    025 *
    026 * <p>
    027 * For reference see: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_subsequence_problem">
    028 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_subsequence_problem</a>.
    029 * </p>
    030 *
    031 * <p>For further reading see:</p>
    032 *
    033 * <p>Lothaire, M. <i>Applied combinatorics on words</i>. New York: Cambridge U Press, 2005. <b>12-13</b></p>
    034 *
    035 * @since 1.0
    036 */
    037public class LongestCommonSubsequenceDistance implements EditDistance<Integer> {
    038
    039    /**
    040     * Object for calculating the longest common subsequence that we can then normalize in apply.
    041     */
    042    private final LongestCommonSubsequence longestCommonSubsequence = new LongestCommonSubsequence();
    043
    044    /**
    045     * Calculates an edit distance between two {@code CharSequence}'s {@code left} and
    046     * {@code right} as: {@code left.length() + right.length() - 2 * LCS(left, right)}, where
    047     * {@code LCS} is given in {@link LongestCommonSubsequence#apply(CharSequence, CharSequence)}.
    048     *
    049     * @param left first character sequence
    050     * @param right second character sequence
    051     * @return distance
    052     * @throws IllegalArgumentException
    053     *             if either String input {@code null}
    054     */
    055    @Override
    056    public Integer apply(final CharSequence left, final CharSequence right) {
    057        // Quick return for invalid inputs
    058        if (left == null || right == null) {
    059            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Inputs must not be null");
    060        }
    061        return left.length() + right.length() - 2 * longestCommonSubsequence.apply(left, right);
    062    }
    063
    064}