jlVidal / strike-a-match

A very clever algorithm that compares two strings

strike-a-match

A very clever algorithm that compares two strings, using adjacent character pairs.

Installation

This package is distributed via npm:

npm install strike-a-match

Usage

var comparison = require('strike-a-match');
var result = comparison.compareStrings("Healed", "Sealed");
console.log(result); // 0.8

Other

This library was just ported by John Vidal to javascript, the algorithm is describe with details here: http://www.catalysoft.com/articles/StrikeAMatch.html