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leven 


Measure the difference between two strings

One of the fastest JS implementations of the Levenshtein distance algorithm


Install

$ npm install leven


Usage

const leven = require('leven');

leven('cat', 'cow');
//=> 2


Benchmark

$ npm run bench


         165,926 op/s » leven
         164,398 op/s » talisman
           1,044 op/s » levenshtein-edit-distance
             628 op/s » fast-levenshtein
             497 op/s » levenshtein-component
             195 op/s » ld
             190 op/s » levenshtein
             168 op/s » levdist
              10 op/s » natural


Related


leven-cli - CLI for this module


License

MIT © Sindre Sorhus