README.md

go-jaro-winkler-distance

Native Jaro-Winkler distance in Go.

Jaro-Winkler distance calculates the familiarity of two strings on range 0 to 1.

In this package the higher the score, the higher the similarity.

The package uses a sliding window for transpositions, which backtracks and looks forward for the length of the whole window. Further, the sliding window removes matches as it progresses. As a result, the values given by this package might slightly differentiate from others.

Example

package main

import (
	"log"

	"github.com/jhvst/go-jaro-winkler-distance"
)

func main() {
    distance := Calculate("accomodate", "accommodate")
    log.Println(distance)
    // Output: 0.7509090909090909
}