我想比较几个字符串，并找到最相似的字符串。我想知道是否有任何库，方法或最佳实践可以返回哪些字符串与其他字符串更相似。例如：
这种比较将返回第一个比第二个更相似。
我想我需要一些方法，例如：
double similarityIndex(String s1, String s2)
在某个地方有这样的事情吗？
编辑：我为什么要这样做？我正在编写一个脚本，该脚本将MS项目文件的输出与处理任务的某些遗留系统的输出进行比较。由于旧系统的字段宽度非常有限，因此在添加值时，描述将被缩写。我想要一些半自动化的方法来查找MS项目中的哪些条目与系统上的条目相似，以便我可以获取生成的密钥。它有缺点，因为它必须仍然手动检查，但它会节省大量工作
以 0%-100% 的方式计算两个字符串之间相似性的常用方法是测量必须更改较长字符串以将其转换为较短的字符串的程度（以 % 为单位）：
/**
* Calculates the similarity (a number within 0 and 1) between two strings.
*/
public static double similarity(String s1, String s2) {
String longer = s1, shorter = s2;
if (s1.length() < s2.length()) { // longer should always have greater length
longer = s2; shorter = s1;
}
int longerLength = longer.length();
if (longerLength == 0) { return 1.0; /* both strings are zero length */ }
return (longerLength - editDistance(longer, shorter)) / (double) longerLength;
}
// you can use StringUtils.getLevenshteinDistance() as the editDistance() function
// full copy-paste working code is below
editDistance()上面的函数应计算两个字符串之间的编辑距离。此步骤有几种实现，每种实现都可能更适合特定方案。最常见的是Levenshtein距离算法，我们将在下面的示例中使用它（对于非常大的字符串，其他算法可能表现更好）。editDistance()
以下是计算编辑距离的两个选项：
apply（CharSequence left，CharSequence rightt）的实现。
public class StringSimilarity {
/**
* Calculates the similarity (a number within 0 and 1) between two strings.
*/
public static double similarity(String s1, String s2) {
String longer = s1, shorter = s2;
if (s1.length() < s2.length()) { // longer should always have greater length
longer = s2; shorter = s1;
}
int longerLength = longer.length();
if (longerLength == 0) { return 1.0; /* both strings are zero length */ }
/* // If you have Apache Commons Text, you can use it to calculate the edit distance:
LevenshteinDistance levenshteinDistance = new LevenshteinDistance();
return (longerLength - levenshteinDistance.apply(longer, shorter)) / (double) longerLength; */
return (longerLength - editDistance(longer, shorter)) / (double) longerLength;
}
// Example implementation of the Levenshtein Edit Distance
// See http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance#Java
public static int editDistance(String s1, String s2) {
s1 = s1.toLowerCase();
s2 = s2.toLowerCase();
int[] costs = new int[s2.length() + 1];
for (int i = 0; i <= s1.length(); i++) {
int lastValue = i;
for (int j = 0; j <= s2.length(); j++) {
if (i == 0)
costs[j] = j;
else {
if (j > 0) {
int newValue = costs[j - 1];
if (s1.charAt(i - 1) != s2.charAt(j - 1))
newValue = Math.min(Math.min(newValue, lastValue),
costs[j]) + 1;
costs[j - 1] = lastValue;
lastValue = newValue;
}
}
}
if (i > 0)
costs[s2.length()] = lastValue;
}
return costs[s2.length()];
}
public static void printSimilarity(String s, String t) {
System.out.println(String.format(
"%.3f is the similarity between \"%s\" and \"%s\"", similarity(s, t), s, t));
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
printSimilarity("", "");
printSimilarity("1234567890", "1");
printSimilarity("1234567890", "123");
printSimilarity("1234567890", "1234567");
printSimilarity("1234567890", "1234567890");
printSimilarity("1234567890", "1234567980");
printSimilarity("47/2010", "472010");
printSimilarity("47/2010", "472011");
printSimilarity("47/2010", "AB.CDEF");
printSimilarity("47/2010", "4B.CDEFG");
printSimilarity("47/2010", "AB.CDEFG");
printSimilarity("The quick fox jumped", "The fox jumped");
printSimilarity("The quick fox jumped", "The fox");
printSimilarity("kitten", "sitting");
}
}
输出：
1.000 is the similarity between "" and ""
0.100 is the similarity between "1234567890" and "1"
0.300 is the similarity between "1234567890" and "123"
0.700 is the similarity between "1234567890" and "1234567"
1.000 is the similarity between "1234567890" and "1234567890"
0.800 is the similarity between "1234567890" and "1234567980"
0.857 is the similarity between "47/2010" and "472010"
0.714 is the similarity between "47/2010" and "472011"
0.000 is the similarity between "47/2010" and "AB.CDEF"
0.125 is the similarity between "47/2010" and "4B.CDEFG"
0.000 is the similarity between "47/2010" and "AB.CDEFG"
0.700 is the similarity between "The quick fox jumped" and "The fox jumped"
0.350 is the similarity between "The quick fox jumped" and "The fox"
0.571 is the similarity between "kitten" and "sitting"
