# Approximate String Matching, Fuzzy Text Search, and String Distance Functions

## Documentation for package ‘stringdist’ version 0.9.17

- DESCRIPTION file.
- User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.
- Package NEWS.

## Help Pages

stringdist-package | A package for string distance calculation and approximate string matching.
afind | Stringdist-based fuzzy text search
ain | Approximate string matching
amatch | Approximate string matching
extract | Stringdist-based fuzzy text search
grab | Stringdist-based fuzzy text search
grabl | Stringdist-based fuzzy text search
phonetic | Phonetic algorithms
printable_ascii | Detect the presence of non-printable or non-ascii characters
qgrams | Get a table of qgram counts from one or more character vectors.
seq_ain | Approximate matching for integer sequences.
seq_amatch | Approximate matching for integer sequences.
seq_dist | Compute distance metrics between integer sequences
seq_distmatrix | Compute distance metrics between integer sequences
seq_qgrams | Get a table of qgram counts for integer sequences
seq_sim | Compute similarity scores between sequences of integers
stringdist | Compute distance metrics between strings
stringdist-encoding | String metrics in 'stringdist'
stringdist-metrics | String metrics in 'stringdist'
stringdist-parallelization | Multithreading and parallelization in 'stringdist'
stringdistmatrix | Compute distance metrics between strings
stringdist_api | Calling stringdist from 'C' or 'C++'
stringsim | Compute similarity scores between strings
stringsimmatrix | Compute similarity scores between strings