What's Distance?

Distance is a Coffeescript and Javascript module for calculating distances between strings.

var distance = require "distance";
console.log(distance.sift3("banana", "fanana"));
console.log(distance.levenshtein("banana", "fanana"));

The distance string metrics currently supported are:

• Levenshtein - For accuracy
• Sift3 - For speed

To our knowledge, the implementations are the fastest variations available.

Installation

The recommended way is through the excellent npm:

$ npm install distance

Otherwise, you can check it in your repository and then expose it:

$ git clone git://github.com/awnist/distance.git node_modules/distance/

Distance is UNLICENSED.