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levenshtein

Calculate the edit distance between two strings
Name:levenshtein
Category:String
Programming Language:php
One-line Description:Returns the Levenshtein distance between two strings.

Example

Calculate the Levenshtein distance between two strings:

 <span class="token php language-php"><span class="token delimiter important"><?php</span>
<span class="token keyword">echo</span> <span class="token function">levenshtein</span> <span class="token punctuation">(</span> <span class="token string double-quoted-string">"Hello World"</span> <span class="token punctuation">,</span> <span class="token string double-quoted-string">"ello World"</span> <span class="token punctuation">)</span> <span class="token punctuation">;</span>
<span class="token keyword">echo</span> <span class="token string double-quoted-string">"<br>"</span> <span class="token punctuation">;</span>
<span class="token keyword">echo</span> <span class="token function">levenshtein</span> <span class="token punctuation">(</span> <span class="token string double-quoted-string">"Hello World"</span> <span class="token punctuation">,</span> <span class="token string double-quoted-string">"ello World"</span> <span class="token punctuation">,</span> <span class="token number">10</span> <span class="token punctuation">,</span> <span class="token number">20</span> <span class="token punctuation">,</span> <span class="token number">30</span> <span class="token punctuation">)</span> <span class="token punctuation">;</span>
<span class="token delimiter important">?></span></span>

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