Jaro metric uses halflength of the longer string

David Necas — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:29:34 -0000

Here's a patch:

--- Jaro.java.orig 2004-04-14 10:21:34.000000000 +0200
+++ Jaro.java 2004-04-14 10:21:26.000000000 +0200
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@

private int halfLengthOfShorter(String
str1,String str2)
{
- return (str1.length() > str2.length())
? str1.length()/2 + 1 : str2.length()/2 + 1;
+ return (str1.length() < str2.length())
? str1.length()/2 + 1 : str2.length()/2 + 1;
}

private String commonChars(String s,String
t,int halflen)

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