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keinos/mb\_levenshtein
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Levenshtein function with UTF-8 support.

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mb\_levenshtein PHP function
============================

[](#mb_levenshtein-php-function)

Levenshtein PHP function with UTF-8 support. This function finds similarity distance between two strings.

- [Source Code](https://github.com/KEINOS/mb_levenshtein) @ GitHub
- [Composer available](https://packagist.org/packages/keinos/mb_levenshtein) @ Packagist

Functions
---------

[](#functions)

- Returns in Levenshtein Distance. (The smaller, the closer)

    ```
    mb_levenshtein ( string $str1 , string $str2 ) : int
    ```

    ```
    mb_levenshtein ( string $str1 , string $str2 , int $cost_ins , int $cost_rep , int $cost_del ) : int
    ```
- Returns in Levenshtein Ratio between 0 to 1. (The bigger, the closer)

    ```
    mb_levenshtein_ratio ( string $str1 , string $str2 ) : float
    ```

    ```
    mb_levenshtein_ratio ( string $str1 , string $str2 , int $cost_ins , int $cost_rep , int $cost_del ) : float
    ```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

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