edit_distance

September 28, 2025 ยท View on GitHub

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๐Ÿ“ A pure Gleam package to compute the edit distance of two strings.

Usage

To add this package to your Gleam project:

gleam add edit_distance

And you're good to start using it!

import edit_distance
assert 2 == edit_distance.levenshtein("gleam", "beam")

Contributing

If you think there's any way to improve this package, or if you spot a bug don't be afraid to open PRs, issues or requests of any kind! Any contribution is welcome ๐Ÿ’œ

Aknowledgments

Credits for the Levenshtein distance implementation go to the Levenshtein Elixir library!