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 (about 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-04-12T16:30:28.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-05-05T18:14:02.165Z (6 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 25.4 KB
- Stars: 722
- Watchers: 13
- Forks: 28
- Open Issues: 2
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Metadata Files:
- 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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