Method: String#word_distance

Defined in:
lib/word_up.rb

#word_distance(w1, w2) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/word_up.rb', line 5

def word_distance(w1, w2)
  sentence = self.gsub(/[^0-9a-z ]/i, '').split
  w1_index = sentence.index(w1.gsub(/[^0-9a-z ]/i, ''))
  w2_index = sentence.index(w2.gsub(/[^0-9a-z ]/i, ''))
  ((w1_index - w2_index).abs - 1)
end