Re: Using fuzzy patterns

2018-01-17 Thread shanew
On Sat, 13 Jan 2018, Alex wrote: From: "F*e dE x" That address hardly resembles "Fed Ex", but how general of a rule can we create and still catch variations such as this? I thought something like this would work: headerFUZZY_FEDEX From =~

Re: Using fuzzy patterns

2018-01-14 Thread Alex
Hi, On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 7:58 AM, David Jones wrote: > On 01/14/2018 01:45 AM, Rupert Gallagher wrote: >> >> Good question! >> >> One may write the regex backwards: if it matches "fedex" in the address, >> but does not match "FedEx" in the name, then... However, there are many

Re: Using fuzzy patterns

2018-01-14 Thread David Jones
On 01/14/2018 01:45 AM, Rupert Gallagher wrote: Good question! One may write the regex backwards: if it matches "fedex" in the address, but does not match "FedEx" in the name, then... However, there are many cases where this will fail or return false positives. One may say that fedex is a

Re: Using fuzzy patterns

2018-01-13 Thread Rupert Gallagher
Good question! One may write the regex backwards: if it matches "fedex" in the address, but does not match "FedEx" in the name, then... However, there are many cases where this will fail or return false positives. One may say that fedex is a brand name that only fedex can use, so if the

Using fuzzy patterns

2018-01-13 Thread Alex
Hi, I don't think I fully understand how to use the fuzzy rules with a proper regex: From: "F*e dE x" That address hardly resembles "Fed Ex", but how general of a rule can we create and still catch variations such as this? I thought something like this would