com.intercognition.mailcheck.stringdistance

Class Sift3

java.lang.Object

com.intercognition.mailcheck.stringdistance.Sift3

All Implemented Interfaces:

DistanceAlgorithm

public class Sift3
extends Object
implements DistanceAlgorithm

Ported from C# version.

See Also:

authors page on algorithm

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Sift3(int maxOffset) Calculates string distance - broadly how many characters are different in one string to another.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
float	getDistance(String firstString, String secondString)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Sift3

public Sift3(int maxOffset)

Calculates string distance - broadly how many characters are different in one string to another.

Parameters:

maxOffset - How far away a different character has to be from another to not count as distance. For example, if your max offset is 5, abcde and abcdef should have a difference of 0.

Method Detail

getDistance

public float getDistance(String firstString,
                         String secondString)

Specified by:

getDistance in interface DistanceAlgorithm