hamming

stringmetrics

Function hamming 

Source 
pub fn hamming(a: &str, b: &str) -> Result<u32, LengthMismatchError>
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Hamming distance computations

Calculate the number of substitutions required to change one string into the other.

§Example

use stringmetrics::hamming;
use stringmetrics::errors::LengthMismatchError;

assert_eq!(hamming("abcdefg", "aaadefa"), Ok(3));
assert_eq!(hamming("abcdefg", "xaaadefa"), Err(LengthMismatchError));

§Errors

Returns a LengthMismatchError if the two elements are not of the same length