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Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm
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# leven
> Measure the difference between two strings using the [Levenshtein distance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance) algorithm
## Install
```
$ npm install leven
```
## Usage
```js
import leven from 'leven';
leven('cat', 'cow');
//=> 2
```
## Related
- [leven-cli](https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven-cli) - CLI for this module
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