string-marker.js

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// ## string

// ### marker
/**
 *
 * Generates `marker` of the input string; it is defined as 1-gram, sorted
 * and joined back as a string again. Marker is a quick and aggressive way
 * to detect similarity between short strings. Its aggression may lead to more
 * false positives such as `Meter` and `Metre` or `no melon` and `no lemon`.
 *
 * @alias string#marker
 * @param {string} str the input string.
 * @return {string} the marker.
 * @example
 * marker( 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' );
 * // -> ' abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
 */
var marker = function ( str ) {
  var uniqChars = Object.create( null );
  for ( var i = 0, imax = str.length; i < imax; i += 1 ) {
    uniqChars[ str[ i ] ] = true;
  }
  return ( Object.keys( uniqChars ).sort().join('') );
}; // marker()

module.exports = marker;