From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Charles C. Berry" Subject: Re: fuzzy matching of parameters Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 19:01:04 -0800 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55295) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCe66-0008FM-OZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 22:01:15 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCe62-0006D6-TI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 22:01:14 -0500 Received: from iport-acv2-out.ucsd.edu ([132.239.0.174]:28149) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCe62-0006CN-GP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 22:01:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Matt Price Cc: Org Mode On Thu, 1 Dec 2016, Matt Price wrote: > I have just done something I'm very excited about. Given a directory name > (the variable ~assignment~ in this case) and a list of student info, search > through the directory for files whose names contain the student names, and > attach those to newly created subtrees. > > Before now, manually attaching those files has been a real pain, so it's > great to have this automated! However, sometimes the name I have on file > doesn't quite match the submitted name. A Google Scholar search on 'personal name matching' will point you to the literature on this subject. You might get lucky and find something in a scripting language that Babel supports that you can piggyback onto. HTH, Chuck