Fuzzy

Fuzzy is a Go library for performing fuzzy matching on strings. The primary function provided by this library is Match(), which compares a target string against a list of candidate strings and returns matches sorted by their similarity to the target string.

Features

Compute similarity scores for string matches.
Return matches sorted by similarity score.
Provide detailed information for each match, including:
- The original string from the list.
- The similarity score.
- The number of insertions, deletions, and substitutions needed.
- The position of the match in the provided list.

Usage

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/stevegt/fuzzy"
)

func main() {
    target := "example"
    candidates := []string{"samples", "examples", "simple", "examine"}
    
    matches := fuzzy.Match(target, candidates)
    
    for _, match := range matches {
        fmt.Printf("String: %s, Score: %f, Insertions: %d, Deletions: %d, Substitutions: %d, Position: %d\n",
            match.Original, match.Score, match.Insertions, match.Deletions, match.Substitutions, match.Position)
    }
}