This is a collection of classes that can be used for Approximate matching, searching, and comparing of Strings. They implement algorithms that compute the Levenshtein edit distance, Sellers edit distance, the Hamming distance, the longest common subsequence length, the longest common substring length, the pair distance metric, the Jaro-Winkler metric.
Intall Ruby
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/installation/
To install this extension as a gem type
# gem install amatch
$ irb
require 'amatch'
# => true
include Amatch
# => Object
m = Sellers.new("pattern")
# => #<Amatch::Sellers:0x40366324>
m.match("pattren")
# => 2.0
m.substitution = m.insertion = 3
# => 3
m.match("pattren")
# => 4.0
m.reset_weights
# => #<Amatch::Sellers:0x40366324>
m.match(["pattren","parent"])
# => [2.0, 4.0]
m.search("abcpattrendef")
# => 2.0
m = Levenshtein.new("pattern")
# => #<Amatch::Levenshtein:0x4035919c>
m.match("pattren")
# => 2
m.search("abcpattrendef")
# => 2
"pattern language".levenshtein_similar("language of patterns")
# => 0.2
m = Hamming.new("pattern")
# => #<Amatch::Hamming:0x40350858>
m.match("pattren")
# => 2
"pattern language".hamming_similar("language of patterns")
# => 0.1
m = PairDistance.new("pattern")
# => #<Amatch::PairDistance:0x40349be8>
m.match("pattr en")
# => 0.545454545454545
m.match("pattr en", nil)
# => 0.461538461538462
m.match("pattr en", /t+/)
# => 0.285714285714286
"pattern language".pair_distance_similar("language of patterns")
# => 0.928571428571429
m = LongestSubsequence.new("pattern")
# => #<Amatch::LongestSubsequence:0x4033e900>
m.match("pattren")
# => 6
"pattern language".longest_subsequence_similar("language of patterns")
# => 0.4
m = LongestSubstring.new("pattern")
# => #<Amatch::LongestSubstring:0x403378d0>
m.match("pattren")
# => 4
"pattern language".longest_substring_similar("language of patterns")
# => 0.4
m = Jaro.new("pattern")
# => #<Amatch::Jaro:0x363b70>
m.match("paTTren")
# => 0.952380952380952
m.ignore_case = false
m.match("paTTren")
# => 0.742857142857143
"pattern language".jaro_similar("language of patterns")
# => 0.672222222222222
m = JaroWinkler.new("pattern")
# #<Amatch::JaroWinkler:0x3530b8>
m.match("paTTren")
# => 0.971428571712403
m.ignore_case = false
m.match("paTTren")
# => 0.79428571505206
m.scaling_factor = 0.05
m.match("pattren")
# => 0.961904762046678
"pattern language".jarowinkler_similar("language of patterns")
# => 0.672222222222222
Florian Frank flori@ping.de
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