{"name":"simstring","portdir":"textproc/simstring","version":"20140723","license":"BSD","platforms":"darwin","epoch":0,"replaced_by":null,"homepage":"http://www.chokkan.org/software/simstring/","description":"A fast and simple algorithm for approximate string matching/retrieval","long_description":"SimString is a simple library for fast approximate string retrieval. Approximate string retrieval finds strings in a database whose similarity with a query string is no smaller than a threshold. Finding not only identical but similar strings, approximate string retrieval has various applications including spelling correction, flexible dictionary matching, duplicate detection, and record linkage.","active":true,"categories":["textproc","math"],"maintainers":[],"variants":["universal"],"dependencies":[{"type":"build","ports":["autoconf","automake","libtool","clang-17"]}],"depends_on":[]}