LEVENSHTEIN

Modified on Fri, 16 Aug at 9:27 AM

Introduction

Computes the distance between two strings. Use it to see how similar or dissimilar the string values in two columns are, such as when evaluating the quality of a company name match.


FORMULALEVENSHTEIN
EXAMPLE FORMULALEVENSHTEIN(Column A, Column B)
EXAMPLE INPUTLEVENSHTEIN(company, dbcompany)
EXAMPLE OUTPUT2


Sample Usage


Valid ExamplesInvalid Examples
LEVENSHTEIN(text_col, text_col_2)LEVENSHTEIN(num_col, num_col)


Notes

  • Only "string" data types can be used with this formula
  • Counts the difference between each string "letter" 
  • Cannot compute the distance between dates

See Also

Math/Calculations


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