Levenshtein

Levenshtein implementation in Elixir.

Credits go to the Elixir language source code where it was removed from in 2015. GitHub PR

Installation

The package can be installed by adding levenshtein to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:levenshtein, "~> 0.3.0"}
  ]
end

Usage

iex> Levenshtein.distance("this", "that")
2
iex> Levenshtein.distance("kitten", "sitting")
3