edit-distance

Calculate Levenshtein distance between two strings.

The Levenshtein edit distance is a measure for the similarity between two strings. It's helpful for spelling correction, fuzzy completion, type-ahead and similar use cases.

This implementation supports Unicode.

Installation

In Cargo.toml add

toml [dependencies] edit-distance = "^1.0.0"

Then re-run cargo build. That fetches the dependencies and builds the code.

Usage

```rust extern crate edit_distance;

edit_distance("kitten", "sitting"); // => 3 ```

Contributing

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Submit a pull request :D

History

2015-04-30 1.0.0 Release 2015-04-18 0.0.1 Initial publication

Credits

Thanks to @skade for very helpful criticism of my first rust lib.

License

APL 2.0, see LICENSE file.