Method StringUtil.LevenshteinDistance

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Overload

Calculates the Levenshtein distance between two strings, which tells how much they are different.

public static int LevenshteinDistance(ReadOnlySpan<char> s1, ReadOnlySpan<char> s2)

Parameters

s1  (ReadOnlySpan<char>)

s2  (ReadOnlySpan<char>)

Returns

int

Remarks

It is the number of character edits (removals, inserts, replacements) that must occur to get from string s1 to string s2. Can be used to measure similarity and match approximate strings with fuzzy logic. Uses code and info from https://www.dotnetperls.com/levenshtein.