Levenshtein Distance in Golang

Calculate levenshtein distance in Golang.

Install

By go tool: go get github.com/ferhatelmas/levenshtein

Usage

This uses default calculator which has cost of 1 for additions, deletions and substitutions.

import github.com/ferhatelmas/levenshtein

levenshtein.Dist("aaa", "ab") // 2

You can specify different weights to increment/deletion and substitutions.

levenshtein.New(1, 1).Dist("aaa", "ab") // 2
levenshtein.New(1, 2).Dist("aaa", "ab") // 3
levenshtein.New(1, 3).Dist("aaa", "ab") // 3
levenshtein.New(1, 4).Dist("aaa", "ab") // 3
levenshtein.New(2, 2).Dist("aaa", "ab") // 4
levenshtein.New(3, 2).Dist("aaa", "ab") // 5

LICENSE

MIT © Ferhat Elmas