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Jaro

A score built for short human names: characters count as matching when they are merely near each other, not necessarily in the same place.

A score in [0, 1] built from how many characters the two share within a window that widens with their length, and how many of those arrive out of order. Short strings are what it was designed for — names, codes — and it says nothing about long texts that a reader should trust. JaroWinkler is this score with a prefix bonus on top.

Members

Member	What it does
Jaro.Similarity	Scores two strings on how many characters they share within a sliding window, and how many of those
Jaro.Distance	1 - Similarity, for code that wants a distance rather than a score.