str distance
for strings
Compare two strings and return the edit distance/Levenshtein distance.
Signature
> str distance (compare-string) ...rest
Parameters
compare-string
: the first string to compare...rest
: For a data structure input, check strings at the given cell paths, and replace with result
Examples
get the edit distance between two strings
> 'nushell' | str distance 'nutshell'
1
Compute edit distance between strings in record and another string, using cell paths
> [{a: 'nutshell' b: 'numetal'}] | str distance 'nushell' 'a' 'b'
╭───┬───┬───╮
│ # │ a │ b │
├───┼───┼───┤
│ 0 │ 1 │ 4 │
╰───┴───┴───╯