ExText

A collection of text algorithms for Elixir.

Installation

Add ex_text to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [{:ex_text, "~> 0.1.0"}]
end

Run

mix deps.get

Usage

Simon White algorithm

Simon White algorithm computes the similarity between two strings s1 and s2 as twice the number of character pairs that are common to both strings divided by the sum of the number of character pairs in the two strings.

More information can be found here.

iex> ExText.WhiteSimilarity.similarity("Healed", "Sealed")
0.8