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Hello,

I'm trying to use Hazel for auto-tagging files I drop into a folder based on a lookup table. I can parse the filename against the table and tag accordingly but this only allows me to run the rule once whereas I want to be able to match all instances of words matched in the table and tag accordingly.

For instance, the lookup column in my table might have "table", "chair", "carpet" so for a filename labelled "The chair and table sat on the carpet" I'd like the file to be tagged with "table", "chair" and "carpet"... at the moment Hazel matches against the first found item (in this case "chair"), tags the file "chair" and moves on...

How can I parse the filename from beginning to end and repeatedly look for words that match and add tags for each word found?

Any ideas?

Many thanks,

David

You can use the "Continue" action in each rule to allow evaluation to continue and have the file match multiple rules. You would need separate rules for each tag, though. The alternative is to write a script.

Thanks yes I thought of using the Continue action but would then need to hardcode individual rules for each search term... so was hoping to recursively parse the filename against a CSV file of search terms.

Scripting sounds the best way forward but wasn't sure where to start - can anyone help with any pointers?

Do you know any programming languages? If not, then maybe AppleScript would be the best as it's easier to cobble something together based on examples out there.