string.similarity() | LuaRT free and open source Windows programming framework for Lua

string.similarity(str1, str2)

Calculate the similarity between two strings, using Levenshtein distance algorithm.

Parameters

str1, str2

The strings to be evaluated for similiarity.

Return value

Returns a number between 0 (no similarity at all) and 100 (strings are the same)

Example


local word = "bird"

-- outputs 60
print("Similarity between 'bird' and 'bread' : "..word:similarity('bread'))