Do we really want this in SU or should it live in its own class? Gary
<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> </div><div>Date:05/02/2014 04:15 (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [LANG] Algorithm for fuzzy string matching </div><div> </div>Since nobody had objections against adding this, I'll apply this patch. Benedikt 2014-04-28 17:47 GMT+02:00 Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org>: > Hi all, > > we have a nice PR for StringUtils at github: > https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/pull/20 > > It adds a new string matching algorithm to StringUtils, that calculates a > score for the similarity between to strings. This kind of fuzzy matching is > known from editors like Sublime Text, Text Mate or Atom. > > I think this is a very useful features, but as the contributor points out, > the is no scientific paper or thesis that provides a reference for the > implementation. So this is not _the one_ implementation of a fuzzy string > matching score, like our implementations of the Levenshtein or Jaro-Winkler > algorithms. > > So before adding this, I'd like to hear how others feel about this feature. > > Regards, > Benedikt > > > -- > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > http://github.com/britter > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
