Functions/Text & patterns/levenshtein
Text & patterns Scalar

levenshtein()

The minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions or substitutions) required to change one string to the other. Characters of different cases (e.g., a and A) are considered different.

Arguments & returns

levenshtein(s1, s2)

Scalar
Overload link s1s2 Returns
#01 VARCHARVARCHAR BIGINT

Example

levenshtein example
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