NOTE: This project has been renamed to "stringmetrics".

If anybody is interested in using the crate name "textdistance", please get in touch with me (e.g. on the GitHub page).

This is a Rust library for approximate string matching, based on the Python textdistance implementation. See here for the Python version: https://github.com/life4/textdistance

Get the create info here: https://crates.io/crates/stringmetrics and see the docs here https://docs.rs/stringmetrics/.

Source: https://github.com/pluots/stringmetrics-rust

Future project todo list

• Implement more algorithms
• Ensure tests are comprehensive
• Generalize functions to accept more than just strings