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From: "Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu>
To: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: fuzzy matching of parameters
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 19:01:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.20.1612011857550.2769@charles-berrys-macbook.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN_Dec8js7xhAbbb6qFPX92EieikkjaZuOS5TOK3M2ia5O50TA@mail.gmail.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-02  3:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-02  2:11 fuzzy matching of parameters Matt Price
2016-12-02  3:01 ` Charles C. Berry [this message]
2016-12-02 13:55 ` John Kitchin
2016-12-03 17:06   ` Matt Price

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