https://github.com/oleander/levenshteinish

An average distance implementation of the Levenshtein algorithm
https://github.com/oleander/levenshteinish

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An average distance implementation of the Levenshtein algorithm

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/oleander/levenshteinish
• Owner: oleander
• License: mit
• Created: 2011-01-30T04:11:33.000Z (over 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-01-14T00:22:51.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-25T01:21:02.561Z (about 2 years ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage: https://github.com/oleander/levenshteinish
• Size: 7.81 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Levenshteinish

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An _average distance_ implementation of the [hintable_levenshtein](https://github.com/joshbuddy/hintable_levenshtein) gem.

## How to use

```ruby

Levenshtein.distance("first", "last") # => 0.6

```

The `distance` method returns a value between `0.0` and `1.0`, where `0.0` is spot on.

## How do install

```

[sudo] gem install levenshteinish

```

## Requirements

_Levenshteinish_ is tested on _OS X 10.6.7_ using Ruby _1.8.7_, _1.9.2_.

## License

_Levenshteinish_ is released under the _MIT license_. See `LICENSE` file for details.