{"name":"leven","version":"1.0.2","description":"Measure the difference between two strings using the fastest JS implementation of the Levenshtein distance algorithm","license":"MIT","repository":{"type":"git","url":"https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven"},"bin":{"leven":"cli.js"},"author":{"name":"Sindre Sorhus","email":"sindresorhus@gmail.com","url":"sindresorhus.com"},"engines":{"node":">=0.10.0"},"scripts":{"test":"node test.js","bench":"matcha bench.js"},"files":["index.js","cli.js"],"keywords":["cli","bin","leven","levenshtein","distance","algorithm","algo","string","difference","diff","fast","fuzzy","similar","similarity","compare","comparison","edit","text","match","matching"],"devDependencies":{"ava":"0.0.4","fast-levenshtein":"^1.0.3","ld":"^0.1.0","levdist":"^1.0.0","levenshtein":"^1.0.4","levenshtein-component":"0.0.1","levenshtein-edit-distance":"^0.1.0","matcha":"^0.6.0","natural":"^0.2.1"},"readme":"# leven [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/sindresorhus/leven.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/sindresorhus/leven)\n\n> Measure the difference between two strings  \n> The fastest JS implementation of the [Levenshtein distance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance) algorithm\n\n\n## Install\n\n```\n$ npm install --save leven\n```\n\n\n## Usage\n\n```js\nvar leven = require('leven');\n\nleven('cat', 'cow');\n//=> 2\n```\n\n\n## Benchmark\n\n```\n$ npm run bench\n```\n```\n         343,757 op/s » leven\n         264,625 op/s » levenshtein-edit-distance\n          49,981 op/s » fast-levenshtein\n          25,496 op/s » levenshtein-component\n          18,240 op/s » levdist\n          17,554 op/s » ld\n          12,633 op/s » natural\n           9,960 op/s » levenshtein\n```\n\n\n## CLI\n\n```\n$ npm install --global leven\n```\n\n```\n$ leven --help\n\n  Example\n    $ leven cat cow\n    2\n```\n\n\n## License\n\nMIT © [Sindre Sorhus](http://sindresorhus.com)\n","readmeFilename":"readme.md","bugs":{"url":"https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven/issues"},"homepage":"https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven","_id":"leven@1.0.2","_shasum":"9144b6eebca5f1d0680169f1a6770dcea60b75c3","_from":"https://registry.npmjs.org/leven/-/leven-1.0.2.tgz","_resolved":"https://registry.npmjs.org/leven/-/leven-1.0.2.tgz"}