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

Install

$ npm install --save leven

Usage

```js const leven = require('leven');

leven('cat', 'cow'); //=> 2 ```

Benchmark

$ npm run bench

401,487 op/s » leven 371,707 op/s » talisman 264,191 op/s » levenshtein-edit-distance 152,923 op/s » fast-levenshtein 57,267 op/s » levenshtein-component 19,915 op/s » levdist 21,802 op/s » ld 18,079 op/s » natural 11,761 op/s » levenshtein

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License

MIT © Sindre Sorhus