strCentroid
Return the centroid of a set of strings
Contents
Syntax
- outStr=strCentroid(cellStr, opt)
Description
strCentroid(cellStr) returns the string that has the shortest overall distance to all the other strings based on edit distance. The returned string must be one of the strings in cellStr.
Example
cellStr={'abcd', 'abde', 'abc', 'asdf', 'abd', 'abcd', 'abd'};
opt=strCentroid('defaultOpt');
outStr=strCentroid(cellStr, opt);
fprintf('The centroid of %s is %s.\n', cell2str(cellStr), outStr);
The centroid of {'abcd', 'abde', 'abc', 'asdf', 'abd', 'abcd', 'abd'} is abd.