How to get all closest matched strings from an array?

Question

I am trying to find closest match from an array. For this I use levenshtein(), but levenshtein() returns only first matched string or first closest match.

Here is my scenario:

$words = array('Break Noise','Engine Noise','Vehicle is jerking');

If my input is Noise, I want to get both Break Noise and Engine Noise.

Is it possible to do?

levenshtein() returns me only Break Noise which is the first element.

Answer 1

After getting two upvotes, I'm sucked into leaving this answer on the screen.

$input="Noise";
$words = array('Break Noise','Engine Noise','Noises','Vehicle is jerking','Nose','noise');
$filtered=array_filter($words,function($v)use($input){return stripos($v,$input)!==false;});

usort($filtered,function($a,$b)use($input) {
    return levenshtein($input,$a)>levenshtein($input,$b)?1:-1;
});

var_export($filtered);

Output:

array (
  0 => 'Noises',
  1 => 'noise',
  2 => 'Break Noise',
  3 => 'Engine Noise',
)

This will first filter out "Noise-less" elements, then sort your array using levenshtein().