Source: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/162790/Fuzzy-String-Matching-with-Edit-Distance
I made a little modification to the original code, if you want to read the original code, just click the upper URL.
import java.lang.Math;
public class Levenshtein {
public static double compare(final String s1, final String s2) {
double retval = 0.0;
final int m = s1.length();
final int n = s2.length();
if (m == 0 || n == 0)
return retval;
return retval = 1.0 - (compare(s1, m, s2, n) / (Math.max(m, n)));
}
private static double compare(final String s1, final int m, final String s2, final int n) {
int matrix[][] = new int[m + 1][n + 1];
for (int i = 0; i <= m; i++)
matrix[i][0] = i;
for (int i = 0; i <= n; i++)
matrix[0][i] = i;
for (int i = 1; i <= m; i++) {
int s1i = s1.codePointAt(i - 1);
for (int j = 1; j <= n; j++) {
int s2j = s2.codePointAt(j - 1);
final int cost = s1i == s2j ? 0 : 1;
matrix[i][j] = min3(matrix[i - 1][j] + 1, matrix[i][j - 1] + 1, matrix[i - 1][j - 1] + cost);
}
}
return matrix[m][n];
}
private static int min3(final int a, final int b, final int c) {
return Math.min(Math.min(a, b), c);
}
}