Module rustc_span::edit_distance
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Edit distances.
The edit distance is a metric for measuring the difference between two strings.
Functions
- Finds the edit distance between two strings.
- Provides a word similarity score between two words that accounts for substrings being more meaningful than a typical edit distance. The lower the score, the closer the match. 0 is an identical match.
- Finds the best match for a given word in the given iterator.
- Finds the best match for given word in the given iterator where substrings are meaningful.