## Uses of Interface
org.apache.commons.text.similarity.EditDistance

- Packages that use EditDistance
  Package | Description
  --- | ---
  org.apache.commons.text.similarity | Provides algorithms for string similarity.

- - ### Uses of EditDistance in org.apache.commons.text.similarity

    Classes in org.apache.commons.text.similarity that implement EditDistance
    Modifier and Type | Class | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `class` | `CosineDistance` | Measures the cosine distance between two character sequences.
    `class` | `HammingDistance` | The hamming distance between two strings of equal length is the number of positions at which the corresponding symbols are different.
    `class` | `JaccardDistance` | Measures the Jaccard distance of two sets of character sequence.
    `class` | `LevenshteinDetailedDistance` | An algorithm for measuring the difference between two character sequences.
    `class` | `LevenshteinDistance` | An algorithm for measuring the difference between two character sequences.
    `class` | `LongestCommonSubsequenceDistance` | An edit distance algorithm based on the length of the longest common subsequence between two strings.

    Methods in org.apache.commons.text.similarity that return EditDistance
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `EditDistance<R>` | EditDistanceFrom.`getEditDistance()` | Gets the edit distance.

    Constructors in org.apache.commons.text.similarity with parameters of type EditDistance
    Constructor | Description
    --- | ---
    `EditDistanceFrom​(EditDistance<R> editDistance, CharSequence left)` | This accepts the edit distance implementation and the "left" string.

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