• Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> Jul 15 2011
• Mike Wey <mike-wey example.com> Jul 16 2011

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

Is there any such method in Phobos?

I have to rename some files based on a string array of known names
which need to be fuzzy-matched to file names and then rename the files
to the matches.

E.g.:

string[] strings = ["food", "lamborghini", "architecture"]

files on system:
.\foo.ext
.\lmbrghinione.ext
.\archtwo.ext

and if there's a fuzzy match then the matched files would be renamed to:
.\food.ext
.\lamborghini.ext
.\architecture.ext

Perhaps there's a C library I can use for this?

Mike Wey <mike-wey example.com> writes:

On 07/16/2011 01:17 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
 Is there any such method in Phobos?

 I have to rename some files based on a string array of known names
 which need to be fuzzy-matched to file names and then rename the files
 to the matches.

 E.g.:

 string[] strings = ["food", "lamborghini", "architecture"]

 files on system:
 .\foo.ext
 .\lmbrghinione.ext
 .\archtwo.ext

 and if there's a fuzzy match then the matched files would be renamed to:
 .\food.ext
 .\lamborghini.ext
 .\architecture.ext

 Perhaps there's a C library I can use for this?


You could try stc.algorithm.levenshteinDistance to check how much the 
two names differ.

-- 
Mike Wey