Capturing patterns in a nested "OR" condition?
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2019 7:55 pmHi --
I'm trying to instrument Hazel to rename PDFs based on their contents. In particular, I would like to match a collection of documents that only vary by a few meaningful variables that I'd like to capture and include in the filename.
An example would be PDFs for car insurance statements for a multi-car household, where each car has its own insurance. I'd like to capture the name of the car (e.g. "2001 Toyota Prius" or "2013 Honda CRV") and include that in the filename. Since only one of these would occur in a given PDF, I've used a nested condition with an "If any" clause:
My assumption was that the new filename would contain either "Prius" or "CRV", because only one of the two variables (Model1 and Model2) would match and have a value. Instead, all the new filenames contain "PriusCRV":
The XXX and YYY above reflect different account numbers for the statements, so the matching is occurring correctly. I expect the "PriusCRV" issue is because Hazel is matching many files and the variable names persist across the matches.
Is there a better way to do this, preferably in an extensible way so that additional nested conditions could be added to capture other matches?
Thanks in advance,
Ramon
I'm trying to instrument Hazel to rename PDFs based on their contents. In particular, I would like to match a collection of documents that only vary by a few meaningful variables that I'd like to capture and include in the filename.
An example would be PDFs for car insurance statements for a multi-car household, where each car has its own insurance. I'd like to capture the name of the car (e.g. "2001 Toyota Prius" or "2013 Honda CRV") and include that in the filename. Since only one of these would occur in a given PDF, I've used a nested condition with an "If any" clause:
My assumption was that the new filename would contain either "Prius" or "CRV", because only one of the two variables (Model1 and Model2) would match and have a value. Instead, all the new filenames contain "PriusCRV":
The XXX and YYY above reflect different account numbers for the statements, so the matching is occurring correctly. I expect the "PriusCRV" issue is because Hazel is matching many files and the variable names persist across the matches.
Is there a better way to do this, preferably in an extensible way so that additional nested conditions could be added to capture other matches?
Thanks in advance,
Ramon