Dear Monks
if you build an array, say with the following snippet:
$file=$ARGV[0]; @all_IDS=(); open IN, $file; while(<IN>) { chomp $_; push @all_IDs, $_; } close IN;

What I want to do is to calculate the Levenshtein distance between each element and all the rest in the array.
If I have only 2 IDS, it is easy:
use Text::Levenshtein qw(distance); $distance = distance ($id1, $id2);

What must I write in order to sequentially grep each of the IDS and then compare it to the rest? With slice I guess I would remove it and I do not want that, maybe slice and push once I am done? Something smarter?

In reply to Compare each array element to the rest, sequentially by Anonymous Monk

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