Collate

Collate is a simple collation library for comparing strings in various languages for Go. It's designed for the BuntDB project, and is simliar to the collation that is found in traditional database systems

The idea is that you call a function with a collation name and it generates a Less(a, b string) bool function that can be used for sorting using the sort package or with B-Tree style databases.

Install

go get -u github.com/tidwall/collate

Example

// create a case-insensitive collation for french.
less := collate.IndexString("SPANISH_CI")
println(less("Hola", "hola"))
println(less("hola", "Hola"))
// Output:
// false
// false

Options

Case Sensitivity

Add _CI to the collation name to specify case-insensitive comparing.
Add _CS for case-sensitive compares, this is the default.

collate.Index("SPANISH_CI") // Case-insensitive collation for spanish
collate.Index("SPANISH_CS") // Case-sensitive collation for spanish

Loose Compares

Add _LOOSE to ignores diacritics, case and weight.

Numeric Compares

Add _NUM to specifies that numbers should sort numerically ("2" < "12")

JSON

You can also compare fields in json documents using the IndexJSON function. The GJSON is used under-the-hood.

var jsonA = `{"name":{"last":"Miller"}}`
var jsonB = `{"name":{"last":"anderson"}}`
less := collate.IndexJSON("ENGLISH_CI", "name.last")
println(less(jsonA, jsonB))
println(less(jsonB, jsonA))
// Output:
// false
// true

Supported Languages

Afrikaans
Albanian
AmericanEnglish
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Bengali
BrazilianPortuguese
BritishEnglish
Bulgarian
Burmese
CanadianFrench
Catalan
Chinese
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
EuropeanPortuguese
EuropeanSpanish
Filipino
Finnish
French
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Kannada
Kazakh
Khmer
Kirghiz
Korean
Lao
LatinAmericanSpanish
Latvian
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Malay
Malayalam
Marathi
ModernStandardArabic
Mongolian
Nepali
Norwegian
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
SerbianLatin
SimplifiedChinese
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
TraditionalChinese
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Zulu

Contact

Josh Baker @tidwall

License

Collate source code is available under the MIT License.