RosettaCodeData/Task/Levenshtein-distance-Alignment/00-TASK.txt

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The [[Levenshtein distance]] algorithm returns the number of atomic operations (insertion, deletion or edition) that must be performed on a string in order to obtain an other one, but it does not say anything about the actual operations used or their order.
An alignment is a notation used to describe the operations used to turn a string into an other. At some point in the strings, the minus character ('-') is placed in order to signify that a character must be added at this very place. For instance, an alignment between the words 'place' and 'palace' is:
<pre>
P-LACE
PALACE
</pre>
;Task:
Write a function that shows the alignment of two strings for the corresponding levenshtein distance.
As an example, use the words "rosettacode" and "raisethysword".
You can either implement an algorithm, or use a dedicated library (thus showing us how it is named in your language).
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