leven Build Status

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

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License

MIT © Sindre Sorhus