Text::LevenshteinXS is an XS implementation of the Levenshtein edit distance in Perl. A good point to start is: <http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm>

See also Text::Levenshtein on CPAN for a pure Perl version of this module.

PREREQUISITES

This suite requires Perl 5; I tested it only under Perl 5.6.

Text::LevenshteinXS requires the Test module.

A C compiler.

INSTALLATION

You install Text::LevenshteinXS by running these commands in the *nix environment:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test (optional)
make install

To install Text::LevenshteinXS in the Win32 environment, use nmake instead of make. nmake is available for free (in a self extracting executable): <http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc15/Patch/1.52/W95/EN-US/Nmake15.exe> After download and inflate, put nmake.exe and nmake.err in c:\windows\command . You need also a C compiler (e.g. Visual C++).

DOCUMENTATION

POD format documentation is included in LevenshteinXS.pm. POD is readable with the command:

perldoc Text::LevenshteinXS

AVAILABILITY

The latest version of Text::LevenshteinXS is available from the CPAN <http://search.cpan.org/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2003 Dree Mistrut <dree@friul.it>

This package is free software and is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.