A collection of text algorithms.
require'text'
Text::Levenshtein.distance('test', 'test') # => 0Text::Levenshtein.distance('test', 'tent') # => 1
Text::Metaphone.metaphone('BRIAN') # => 'BRN'Text::Metaphone.double_metaphone('Coburn') # => ['KPRN', nil]Text::Metaphone.double_metaphone('Angier') # => ['ANJ', 'ANJR']
Text::Soundex.soundex('Knuth') # => 'K530'
Text::PorterStemming.stem('abatements') # => 'abat'
white = Text::WhiteSimilarity.newwhite.similarity('Healed', 'Sealed') # 0.8white.similarity('Healed', 'Help') # 0.25
Note that some intermediate information is cached on the instance to improve performance.
The library has been tested on Ruby 1.8.6 to 1.9.3 and on JRuby.
Hampton Catlin (hcatlin) for Ruby 1.9 compatibility work
Wilker Lúcio for the initial implementation of the White algorithm
Same as Ruby.