str distance for strings

Signature

> str distance {flags} (compare-string) ...rest

Parameters

• compare-string: the first string to compare
• ...rest: For a data structure input, check strings at the given cell paths, and replace with result

Input/output types:

Examples

get the edit distance between two strings

>'nushell'|str distance'nutshell'
1

Compute edit distance between strings in table and another string, using cell paths

> [{a:'nutshell'b:'numetal'}] |str distance'nushell''a''b'
╭───┬───┬───╮
│# │ a │ b │
├───┼───┼───┤
│0│1│4│
╰───┴───┴───╯

Compute edit distance between strings in record and another string, using cell paths

> {a:'nutshell'b:'numetal'} |str distance'nushell'ab
╭───┬───╮
│a│1│
│b│4│
╰───┴───╯