Metadata-Version: 2.4
Name: string-matcher
Version: 1.0.1
Summary: Advanced multi-algorithm string similarity and matching engine
Home-page: https://github.com/yourusername/string-matcher
Author: StringMatcher Contributors
Author-email: StringMatcher Contributors <support@stringmatcher.dev>
License: MIT
Keywords: string-matching,similarity,fuzzy-matching,text-analysis,event-matching,record-linking,entity-deduplication
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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# StringMatcher

Advanced multi-algorithm string similarity and matching engine.

## Installation

```bash
pip install string-matcher
```

## Quick Start

### Python API

```python
from string_matcher import compare_strings

score = compare_strings("hello", "hallo")
print(f"Similarity: {score}%")
```

### Command Line

```bash
string-matcher "string1" "string2"
```

### File Processing

```bash
string-matcher input.json output.json field1 field2
```

## Features

- 6+ complementary matching algorithms
- CLI interface
- Python API
- JSON file processing
- Unicode/UTF-8 support
- Production-ready
- Type hints included

## Scoring

- **90-100**: Highly confident match
- **75-89**: High confidence
- **60-74**: Medium confidence (review)
- **35-59**: Low confidence
- **0-34**: Very low confidence

## License

MIT
