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

```js 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