strsim-rs

Rust implementations of string similarity metrics:

• Hamming
• Levenshtein and Damerau-Levenshtein
• Jaro and Jaro-Winkler - this implementation of Jaro-Winkler does not limit the common prefix length

Installation

# Cargo.toml
[dependencies]
strsim = "0.5.2"

Documentation

You can change the version in the url to see the documentation for an older version in the changelog.

Usage

extern crate strsim;

use strsim::{hamming, levenshtein, damerau_levenshtein, jaro, jaro_winkler,
             levenshtein_against_vec, damerau_levenshtein_against_vec,
             jaro_against_vec, jaro_winkler_against_vec};

fn main() {
    match hamming("hamming", "hammers") {
        Ok(distance) => assert_eq!(3, distance),
        Err(why) => panic!("{:?}", why)
    }

    assert_eq!(3, levenshtein("kitten", "sitting"));

    assert_eq!(1, damerau_levenshtein("specter", "spectre"));

    assert!((0.392 - jaro("Friedrich Nietzsche", "Jean-Paul Sartre")).abs() <
            0.001);

    assert!((0.911 - jaro_winkler("cheeseburger", "cheese fries")).abs() <
            0.001);

    // get vectors of values back
    let v = vec!["test", "test1", "test12", "test123", "", "tset"];

    assert_eq!(levenshtein_against_vec("test", &v),
               vec![0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 2]);

    assert_eq!(damerau_levenshtein_against_vec("test", &v),
               vec![0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1]);

    let jaro_distances = jaro_against_vec("test", &v);
    let jaro_expected = vec![1.0, 0.933333, 0.888889, 0.857143, 0.0, 0.916667];
    let jaro_delta: f64 = jaro_distances.iter()
                                        .zip(jaro_expected.iter())
                                        .map(|(x, y)| (x - y).abs() as f64)
                                        .fold(0.0, |x, y| x + y as f64);
    assert!(jaro_delta < 0.0001);

    let jaro_winkler_distances = jaro_winkler_against_vec("test", &v);
    let jaro_winkler_expected = vec![1.0, 0.96, 0.933333, 0.914286, 0.0, 0.925];
    let jaro_winkler_delta = jaro_winkler_distances.iter()
                                 .zip(jaro_winkler_expected.iter())
                                 .map(|(x, y)| (x - y).abs() as f64)
                                 .fold(0.0, |x, y| x + y as f64);
    assert!(jaro_winkler_delta < 0.0001);
}

Development

Install Vagrant, and run vagrant up.

License

MIT