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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'simstring'
# Create a SimString database with two person names.
db = Simstring::Writer.new('sample.db')
db.insert('Barack Hussein Obama II')
db.insert('James Gordon Brown')
db.close()
# Open the database for reading.
db = Simstring::Reader.new('sample.db')
# Use cosine similarity and threshold 0.6.
db.measure = Simstring::Cosine
db.threshold = 0.6
p(db.retrieve('Barack Obama')) # OK.
p(db.retrieve('Gordon Brown')) # OK.
p(db.retrieve('Obama')) # Too dissimilar!
# Use overlap coefficient and threshold 1.0.
db.measure = Simstring::Overlap
db.threshold = 1
p(db.retrieve('Obama')) # OK.
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