From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu>
Subject: Re: fuzzy matching of parameters
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 19:01:04 -0800
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.20.1612011857550.2769@charles-berrys-macbook.local>
References: <CAN_Dec8js7xhAbbb6qFPX92EieikkjaZuOS5TOK3M2ia5O50TA@mail.gmail.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
Return-path: <emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>
Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55295)
	by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <ccberry@ucsd.edu>) 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 <ccberry@ucsd.edu>) 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 <ccberry@ucsd.edu>) id 1cCe62-0006CN-GP
	for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 22:01:10 -0500
In-Reply-To: <CAN_Dec8js7xhAbbb6qFPX92EieikkjaZuOS5TOK3M2ia5O50TA@mail.gmail.com>
List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." <emacs-orgmode.gnu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/emacs-orgmode>,
	<mailto:emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/>
List-Post: <mailto:emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode>,
	<mailto:emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe>
Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org
Sender: "Emacs-orgmode"
	<emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>
To: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>

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