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<pre class='rust fn'>pub fn levenshtein(a: &amp;<a class='primitive' href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.str.html'>str</a>, b: &amp;<a class='primitive' href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.str.html'>str</a>) -&gt; <a class='primitive' href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.usize.html'>usize</a></pre><div class='docblock'><p>Calculates the minimum number of insertions, deletions, and substitutions
required to change one string into the other.</p>
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<span class='kw'>use</span> <span class='ident'>strsim</span>::<span class='ident'>levenshtein</span>;
<span class='macro'>assert_eq</span><span class='macro'>!</span>(<span class='number'>3</span>, <span class='ident'>levenshtein</span>(<span class='string'>&quot;kitten&quot;</span>, <span class='string'>&quot;sitting&quot;</span>));</pre>
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