jmalonzo / leven

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

leven

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

Install

$ npm install --save leven

Usage

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

Related

• leven-cli - CLI for this module

License

MIT © Sindre Sorhus