go-jellyfish

README

Go port of the popular Python Jellyfish library

Written by James Turk and Michael Stephens in Python

It is a library for doing approximate and phonetic matching of strings.

Python source is available at http://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish.

Current TODO - Tests

Included Algorithms

String comparison:

• Levenshtein Distance
• Damerau-Levenshtein Distance
• Jaro Distance
• Jaro-Winkler Distance
• Match Rating Approach Comparison
• Hamming Distance

Phonetic encoding:

• American Soundex
• Metaphone
• NYSIIS (New York State Identification and Intelligence System) (Requires Testing)
• Match Rating Codex (Requires Testing)

Example Usage

    jellyfish.Levenshtein_distance("jellyfish","smellyfish")
    jellyfish.Match_rating_comparision("Jellyfish","Smellyfish")

refer to example.go