module Levenshtein

Overview

Levensthein distance methods.

Defined in:

Class Method Summary

• .distance(string1 : String, string2 : String) : Int32

  Computes the levenshtein distance of two strings.

• .find(name, tolerance = nil, &block)
• .find(name, all_names, tolerance = nil)

Class Method Detail

require "levenshtein"

Levenshtein.distance("algorithm", "altruistic") # => 6
Levenshtein.distance("hello", "hallo")          # => 1
Levenshtein.distance("こんにちは", "こんちは")           # => 1
Levenshtein.distance("hey", "hey")              # => 0