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levenshtein-edit-distance
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Levenshtein edit distance (by Vladimir Levenshtein). No cruft. Real fast.
npm:
npm install levenshtein-edit-distance
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
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 APIstemmer
— Porter stemming algorithmlancaster-stemmer
— Lancaster stemming algorithmdouble-metaphone
— Double Metaphone implementationsoundex-code
— Fast Soundex implementationdice-coefficient
— Sørensen–Dice coefficientsyllable
— Syllable count in an English wordFAQs
Levenshtein edit distance
The npm package levenshtein-edit-distance receives a total of 101,482 weekly downloads. As such, levenshtein-edit-distance popularity was classified as popular.
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