Crate edit_distance
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Edit distance
The Levenshtein edit distance between two strings is
the number of individual single-character changes (insert, delete,
substitute) necessary to change string a
into b
.
This can be a used to order search results, for fuzzy auto-completion, and to find candidates for spelling correction.
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Functions
Returns the edit distance between strings a
and b
.