Package de.uni_trier.wi2.procake.similarity.base.string

Interface SMStringWildcard

All Superinterfaces:

SimilarityMeasure, SMString

All Known Implementing Classes:

SMStringWildcardImpl

public interface SMStringWildcard
extends SMString

Compares a query and case string, where the query can contain wildcards. Wildcards are a kind of regular expressions. Therefore they are implemented by using the regular expression syntax PERL5.

Similarity

The wildcard query can only indicate, if an expression matches or doesn't match. So the similarity can only be 1 or 0.

For example

• If the query is "t*t" and the case is "test", then the similarity is 1. "*" can be replaced with the two arbitrary symbols "es".
• If the query is "t?t" and the case is "test", then the similarity is 0. "?" can only be replaced with one arbitrary symbol.

Supported Syntax

The query can contain wildcards like "*" and "?", that will be interpreted.

Supported wildcards

Wildcard	Meaning
*	zero, one or more arbitrary symbols
?	one arbitrary symbol

Author:

Rainer Maximini

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static final String	NAME

Fields inherited from interface de.uni_trier.wi2.procake.similarity.SimilarityMeasure

LOG_ORDER_NAME_NOT_FOUND

Method Summary

Methods inherited from interface de.uni_trier.wi2.procake.similarity.SimilarityMeasure

compute, getDataClass, getName, getSystemName, isForceOverride, isReusable, setForceOverride

Field Details

NAME

static final String NAME

See Also:

• Constant Field Values