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

[dependencies]
edit-distance = "2.1.1"

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

Usage

extern crate edit_distance;

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

Development

Test changes before comitting.

cargo clean
cargo fmt --all -- --check
cargo build
cargo test

Contributing

Fork it!
Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
Develop your changes (see details above)
Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
Submit a pull request :D

History

2024-06-26 2.1.1 Replace CI badge, maintenance 2019-03-02 2.1.0 Optimize memory usage 2018-01-02 2.0.1 Update dev-dependencies 2017-07-02 2.0.0 2015-05-01 1.0.0 Release 2015-04-18 0.0.1 Initial upload

Credits

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

License

APL 2.0, see LICENSE file.

edit-distance 2.1.1