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+# zig-leven
+
+Measure the difference between two slices using the Levenshtein distance algorithm
+
+Adapted from https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven
+
+## Built With
+- Zig master
+    - https://github.com/ziglang/zig
+- Zigmod package manager
+    - https://github.com/nektro/zigmod
+
+## Install
+```
+zigmod aq add 1/nektro/leven
+```
+
+## Usage
+`pub fn leven(comptime T: type, alloc: *std.mem.Allocator, a: []const T, b: []const T) !usize`
+
+## Future
+TODO Unicode support for strings
+
+## License
+MIT