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jfcherng/php-levenshtein-distance
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Calculate the Levenshtein distance and edit progresses between two strings.

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php-levenshtein-distance
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Calculate the Levenshtein distance and edit progresses between two strings. Note that if you do not need the edit path, PHP has a built-in [levenshtein()](http://php.net/manual/en/function.levenshtein.php) function.

Features
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[](#features)

- UTF-8-ready.
- Full edit progresses information.

Installation
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[](#installation)

```
$ composer require jfcherng/php-levenshtein-distance
```

Example
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[](#example)

See `demo.php`.

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