levenshtein-edit-distance
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Levenshtein edit distance (by Vladimir Levenshtein). No cruft. Real fast.
Install:
npm install levenshtein-edit-distance
Use:
var levenshtein = require('levenshtein-edit-distance');
levenshtein('levenshtein', 'levenshtein'); // 0
levenshtein('sitting', 'kitten'); // 3
levenshtein('gumbo', 'gambol'); // 2
levenshtein('saturday', 'sunday'); // 3
/* Case sensitive! */
levenshtein('DwAyNE', 'DUANE') !== levenshtein('dwayne', 'DuAnE');
// true
/* Insensitive: */
levenshtein('DwAyNE', 'DUANE', true) === levenshtein('dwayne', 'DuAnE', true); // true
/* Order insensitive */
levenshtein('aarrgh', 'aargh') === levenshtein('aargh', 'aarrgh');
// true
Install:
npm install -g levenshtein-edit-distance
Use:
Usage: levenshtein-edit-distance [options] word word
Levenshtein edit distance. No cruft. Real fast.
Options:
-h, --help output usage information
-v, --version output version number
-i, --insensitive ignore casing
Usage:
# output distance
$ levenshtein-edit-distance sitting kitten
# 3
# output distance from stdin
$ echo "saturday,sunday" | levenshtein-edit-distance
# 3
levenshtein.c
— C APIlevenshtein
— C CLIlevenshtein-rs
— Rust APIFAQs
Levenshtein edit distance
We found that levenshtein-edit-distance demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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