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src/main/java/com/thealgorithms/strings/LevenshteinDistance.java

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+package com.thealgorithms.strings;
+
+/**
+ * Computes the Levenshtein distance (edit distance) between two strings.
+ * Time: O(n*m), Space: O(min(n, m)) if optimized, here using full DP for simplicity.
+ */
+public final class LevenshteinDistance {
+    private LevenshteinDistance() {}
+
+    /**
+     * Compute the edit distance between s and t.
+     *
+     * @param s first string (may be null)
+     * @param t second string (may be null)
+     * @return minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions or substitutions)
+     */
+    public static int compute(final String s, final String t) {
+        if (s == null) return t == null ? 0 : t.length();
+        if (t == null) return s.length();
+        final int n = s.length();
+        final int m = t.length();
+
+        if (n == 0) return m;
+        if (m == 0) return n;
+
+        int[][] dp = new int[n + 1][m + 1];
+
+        for (int i = 0; i <= n; i++) dp[i][0] = i;
+        for (int j = 0; j <= m; j++) dp[0][j] = j;
+
+        for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
+            char cs = s.charAt(i - 1);
+            for (int j = 1; j <= m; j++) {
+                char ct = t.charAt(j - 1);
+                int cost = (cs == ct) ? 0 : 1;
+                dp[i][j] = Math.min(Math.min(dp[i - 1][j] + 1,    // deletion
+                                              dp[i][j - 1] + 1),   // insertion
+                                              dp[i - 1][j - 1] + cost); // substitution
+            }
+        }
+
+        return dp[n][m];
+    }
+}

src/test/java/com/thealgorithms/strings/LevenshteinDistanceTest.java

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+package com.thealgorithms.strings;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+public class LevenshteinDistanceTest {
+
+    @Test
+    void sameStringsHaveZeroDistance() {
+        assertThat(LevenshteinDistance.compute("test", "test")).isZero();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void emptyToNonEmpty() {
+        assertThat(LevenshteinDistance.compute("", "abc")).isEqualTo(3);
+        assertThat(LevenshteinDistance.compute("abc", "")).isEqualTo(3);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void nullHandling() {
+        assertThat(LevenshteinDistance.compute(null, null)).isZero();
+        assertThat(LevenshteinDistance.compute(null, "abc")).isEqualTo(3);
+        assertThat(LevenshteinDistance.compute("abc", null)).isEqualTo(3);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void typicalExamples() {
+        assertThat(LevenshteinDistance.compute("kitten", "sitting")).isEqualTo(3);
+        assertThat(LevenshteinDistance.compute("flaw", "lawn")).isEqualTo(2);
+        assertThat(LevenshteinDistance.compute("gumbo", "gambol")).isEqualTo(2);
+    }
+}