Distance Between Characters in String

Thank you for your help in advance. Suppose I have two strings namely, Source and Target,

Source: abcde
Target: hello

Is there a function for me to calculate the distance between the characters (using alphabetical series) in Source and Target?

Example answer: [7][3][9][8][10]
Explanation: [8-1][5-2][12-3][12-4][15-5]

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

>> 'hello' - 'abcde'
ans =
     7     3     9     8    10

Explanation: in MATLAB character arrays are arrays just like numeric arrays, so many mathematical operations can be performed on them. Read about character arrays:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/characters-and-strings.html

If you want the edit distance, then use this algorithm:

http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2015/10/14/40-year-old-algorithm-that-cannot-be-improved/

[RDG]

Thank you for such a simple and elegant solution!