StringDistance

All Superinterfaces:

java.io.Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

MetricStringDistance, NormalizedStringDistance

All Known Implementing Classes:

Cosine, Damerau, Jaccard, JaroWinkler, Levenshtein, LongestCommonSubsequence, MetricLCS, NGram, NormalizedLevenshtein, OptimalStringAlignment, QGram, RatcliffObershelp, Sift4, SorensenDice, WeightedLevenshtein
```
public interface StringDistance
extends java.io.Serializable
```

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`double`	`distance(java.lang.String s1, java.lang.String s2)`	Compute and return a measure of distance.

- Method Detail
  - distance
```
double distance(java.lang.String s1,
                java.lang.String s2)
```
    Compute and return a measure of distance. Must be >= 0.
    
    Parameters:
    
    s1 -
    
    s2 -
    
    Returns: