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- /* Fuzzy string comparison.
- Copyright (C) 1995, 2000, 2002-2003, 2006, 2008-2020 Free Software
- Foundation, Inc.
- This file was written by Peter Miller <pmiller@agso.gov.au>
- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
- (at your option) any later version.
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
- #ifndef _FSTRCMP_H
- #define _FSTRCMP_H
- #ifdef __cplusplus
- extern "C" {
- #endif
- /* Fuzzy compare of S1 and S2. Return a measure for the similarity of S1
- and S1. The higher the result, the more similar the strings are.
- The result is bounded between 0 (meaning very dissimilar strings) and
- 1 (meaning identical strings). */
- extern double fstrcmp (const char *s1, const char *s2);
- /* Like fstrcmp (S1, S2), except that if the result is < LOWER_BOUND, an
- arbitrary other value < LOWER_BOUND can be returned. */
- extern double fstrcmp_bounded (const char *s1, const char *s2,
- double lower_bound);
- /* A shortcut for fstrcmp. Avoids a function call. */
- #define fstrcmp(s1,s2) fstrcmp_bounded (s1, s2, 0.0)
- /* Frees the per-thread resources allocated by this module for the current
- thread.
- You don't need to call this function in threads other than the main thread,
- because per-thread resources are reclaimed automatically when the thread
- exits. However, per-thread resources allocated by the main thread are
- comparable to static allocations; calling this function can be useful to
- avoid an error report from valgrind. */
- extern void fstrcmp_free_resources (void);
- #ifdef __cplusplus
- }
- #endif
- #endif
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