startsWithSimilarity property
double
get
startsWithSimilarity
Compares the starting charcters of the String with that of other, limiting the comparison to a substring of this or other that is the shorter of this.length or other.length. ///
- returns 1.0 if the two strings are the same;
- returns 0.0 if the two strings do not start with the same character;
- returns 0.0 if either of the strings are empty, unless both are empty (equal);
- returns the edit distance between the starting characters in all other cases.
The two strings are converted to lower-case and trimmed for the comparison.
Not case sensitive.
Implementation
double get startsWithSimilarity;