jwd

go-jaro-winkler-distance

Native Jaro-Winkler distance in Go.

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

For example comparing words DIXON and DICKSONX gives you score of 0.8133333333333332, whilst comparing words sound and ääni will yield 0.438. That being said, this package also supports unicode characters.

Example

package main

import (
	"fmt"

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

func main() {
	// See more example strings at http://www.amstat.org/sections/srms/Proceedings/papers/1990_056.pdf
	fmt.Println(jwd.Calculate("DIXON", "DICKSONX"))
	// output: 0.8133333333333332
}