https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven

Measure the difference between two strings with the fastest JS implementation of the Levenshtein distance algorithm
https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven

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Measure the difference between two strings with the fastest JS implementation of the Levenshtein distance algorithm

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven
• Owner: sindresorhus
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-08-09T20:34:03.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-08-10T12:17:06.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-09T04:41:27.260Z (27 days ago)
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 26.4 KB
• Stars: 707
• Watchers: 14
• Forks: 35
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: readme.md
  • Funding: .github/funding.yml
  • License: license
  • Security: .github/security.md

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README

        
# leven

> Measure the difference between two strings using the [Levenshtein distance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance) algorithm

## Install

```

$ npm install leven

```

## Usage

```js

import leven from 'leven';

leven('cat', 'cow');

//=> 2

```

## Related

- [leven-cli](https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven-cli) - CLI for this module

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