Jaro winkler similarity on Empty strings

[santhosh6328]

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I am using jaro wrinkler similarity to check similarities between names. In one of the use case, i found this issue. s1 = "SOME NAME" - s2 = "" -> similarity = 1 Why is the output "1". shouldn't "1" be for exact matches ? please help

version details : java-string-similarity -> 2.0.0

[denmase]

@santhosh6328

Can you attach your source code? I tried similarity for those strings, and it returned 0 (correct). Perhaps you mixed similarity with distance. Those are completely different things.

        System.out.println("Similarity: " + jw.similarity("SOME NAME", ""));
        System.out.println("Distance: " + jw.distance("SOME NAME", ""));

[paulirwin]

Also note that this scenario is covered via unit tests (see the NullEmptyTests class and its usage in the Jaro Winkler unit tests).

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