Class: Levenshtein

Levenshtein()

Class representing Levenshtein distance calculations.

Constructor

new Levenshtein()

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Methods

(static) similarity(a, b) → {number}

Calculates the Levenshtein distance between two strings.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
a string

The first string for comparison.

b string

The second string for comparison.

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Returns:
  • The Levenshtein distance, representing the minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions, or substitutions) required to transform one string into the other.
Type
number