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I’d like to know if there is any class in Java able to check, using its own criteria, how much a String is equal to another one.
Example :
William Shakespeare / William Shakespeare : might be 100%William Shakespe**a**re / William Shakespe**e**re : might have above 90%William Shakespeare / Shakespeare, William : might have above 70% (just examples)
Generally, there is the levenshtein algorithm, which just outputs how many insert/update/delete operations you would have to perform (characterwise) in order to transform one string into another. Apache’s StringUtils class has an implementation.