EditDistance

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Computes the Levenshtein edit distance between two strings.

Forms

EditDistance[u, v]

Verified examplesEditDistance["kitten", "sitting"] → 3

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Topics

Biomolecular Sequences - Bio Sequence Comparison
Discrete And Integer Data - Distance Measures »
Distance And Similarity Measures - String Data
New In60 Alphabetical Listing - E
New In60 Core Language - New in String Manipulation
New In60 Statistics - New Distance & Similarity Measures »

Related

DamerauLevenshteinDistance HammingDistance SmithWatermanSimilarity StringCount JaccardDissimilarity Nearest CentralFeature BioSequence DiffAlignmentMethod NeedlemanWunschSimilarity SequenceAlignment Dendrogram

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