NAME

Digest::ManberHash - a Perl package to calculate Manber Hashes

SYNOPSIS

  use Digest::ManberHash;
  
  $instance = Digest::ManberHash::new($maskbits, $prime, $charcount);

  $hash1 = $instance->DoHash($filename1);
  $hash2 = $instance->DoHash($filename2);

  $similarity = $instance->Compare($hash1, $hash2);

DESCRIPTION

Initialization

Use "Digest::ManberHash::new". Parameters:

maskbits: range 1 .. 30, default 11.
prime: range 3 .. 65537, default 7.
charcount: range 8 .. 32768, default 64.

For a detailed description please read http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/manber94finding.html.

Calculating hashes

  $hash = $instance->DoHash($filename);

This gives an object, which has an hash of hash values stored within.

Comparing hashes

  $similarity = $instance->Compare($hash1, $hash2);

This gives an value of 0.0 .. 1.0, depending on the similariness. Help wanted: The calculation could do better than now!!