From 927768e6b22d5ffe8043625362247232a5fc3365 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frank Seifferth <frankseifferth@posteo.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 17:39:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Replace charAt with index notation in levenshtein.coffee

Using charAt restricts the library's usage to comparing strings
only. Using plain index notation allows to use it on arbitrary
lists as well: e. g. for calculating the levenshtein distance
in words between tokenized texts.
---
 src/levenshtein.coffee | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/levenshtein.coffee b/src/levenshtein.coffee
index 3551f95..6b57da9 100644
--- a/src/levenshtein.coffee
+++ b/src/levenshtein.coffee
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ levenshtein = (stringA, stringB, insertCb, removeCb, updateCb) ->
 
 	for i in [1..a.length] by 1
 		for j in [1..b.length] by 1
-			aC = a.charAt(i - 1)
-			bC = b.charAt(j - 1)
+			aC = a[i - 1]
+			bC = b[j - 1]
 			min = trackedMin(
 				 dist[i - 1][j] + removeCb(aC),
 				 dist[i][j - 1] + insertCb(bC),