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then just loop until it crosses a threshold

then with A,B,X of OP's example, the correct result will be missed

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Re^3: Suffix-prefix matching done right
by NERDVANA (Deacon) on Nov 05, 2021 at 12:32 UTC
    Ah, True. In a different example, "abcdef" and "abcdef" would iteratively have an edit distance of 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, and then suddenly 0. So you would need to check all lengths.
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