richienb/leven

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

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

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