Simetric provides facilities to perform approximate string matching and measurement of string similarity/distance. The library is focusing on speed and completeness.

• Jaro (has been moved to Elixir's standard library)
• Jaro–Winkler
• Levenshtein

Add Simetric as a dependency to your mix.exs file:

defp deps do
  [{:simetric, "~> 0.2.0"}]
end

Then, run mix deps.get in your shell to fetch the new dependency.

Jaro–Winkler:

Simetric.Jaro.Winkler.compare("dwayne", "duane") # => 0.8400000000000001
Simetric.Jaro.Winkler.compare("hardin", "martinez") # => 0.7222222222222222
Simetric.Jaro.Winkler.compare("same", "same") # => 1.0

Levenshtein:

Simetric.Levenshtein.compare("gumbo", "gambol") # => 2
Simetric.Levenshtein.compare("kitten", "sitting") # => 3

Simetric is released under the ISC license.