jellyfish |release|
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Overview
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jellyfish is a library of functions for approximate and phonetic matching of strings.


Included Algorithms
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String Comparison:

    * Levenshtein Distance
    * Damerau-Levenshtein Distance
    * Jaro Distance
    * Jaro-Winkler Distance
    * Match Rating Approach Comparison
    * Hamming Distance

Phonetic Encoding:

    * American Soundex
    * Metaphone
    * NYSIIS (New York State Identification and Intelligence System)
    * Match Rating Codex


Contents
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`