More tolerant date matching

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More tolerant date matching Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:00 pm • by dgjinator
Is there a way to get Hazel to be more tolerant of separators when matching to a custom date format? I am trying to match dates in the contents of documents that have been OCR'd. For a date like "January 1, 2015" the OCR process often leaves out the space between the comma and the year or turns the comma into a period. I'd like the match to work in these cases too.
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Re: More tolerant date matching Mon Nov 30, 2015 1:21 pm • by Mr_Noodle
In such cases, it pays to not be overly specific. Try using the "anything" token to match any fudge in between the date components.
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