Text::WagnerFischer is an implementation of the Wagner-Fischer edit distance in Perl. PREREQUISITES This suite requires Perl 5; I tested it only under Perl 5.6. Text::WagnerFischer does not use any nonstandard modules. INSTALLATION You install Text::WagnerFischer by running these commands in the *nix environment: perl Makefile.PL make make test (optional) make install To install Text::WagnerFischer in the Win32 environment, use nmake instead of make. nmake is available for free (in a self extracting executable): <http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc15/Patch/1.52/W95/EN-US/Nmake15.exe> After download and inflate, put nmake.exe and nmake.err somewhere in your path. DOCUMENTATION POD format documentation is included in WagnerFischer.pm. POD is readable with the command: perldoc Text::WagnerFischer AVAILABILITY The latest version of Text::WagnerFischer is available from the CPAN <http://search.cpan.org/> COPYRIGHT Copyright 2002,2003 Dree Mistrut <dree@friul.it> This package is free software and is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.