[LANG-944] Add the Jaro-Winkler string distance algorithm to StringUtils

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.3
• Component/s: lang.*
• Assignee: Benedikt Ritter
• Reporter: Rekha Joshi
• Created: 07/Jan/14 06:08
• Updated: 04/Mar/14 17:19
• Resolved: 23/Jan/14 16:33

Description

Add SimilarityMatch algorithm to evaluate a similarity matching ratio between two strings.

double matchscore = StringUtils.calculateSimilarityMatching(String s1, String s2)

I have a patch ready with implementation of similaritymatch.
This happens to be a usual need in science algorithm and directly using commons lang3 library for these string operation would be neat.