levenshtein

This function is used to returns the Levenshtein distance between two strings, for example, levenshtein('kitten','sitting') = 3.

Levenshtein distance is a type of edit distance. It indicates the minimum number of edit operations required to convert one string into another.

levenshtein(string A, string B)

**Table 1** Parameter
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
A, B	Yes	STRING	String to be entered for calculating the Levenshtein distance

The return value is of the INT type.

The value 3 is returned.

SELECT levenshtein('kitten','sitting');

Parent topic: String Functions

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