String Similarity

Allows to calculate various string similarity metrics between two strings, like n-gram overlap, Levenshtein, and Jaro-Winkler.

If one of the input cells contains a “missing value”, a missing value will be returned as output as well.

Options

Text input 1: The column in the input table with the first string.
Text input 2: The column in the input table with the second string.
Similarity column name: The name of the column in the output table which contains the similarity value.
Similarity measure: The similarity measure to calculate.

: Table with an appended column holding the similarity between the strings for each row.

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On NodePit since: 2025-12-11

Last update: 2026-01-11

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