My current work task is a glorified game of “find the hyphen”. I need to go through CAD drawing names and separate the title from the subtitle. Seemly a simple task until I found complications like “STD” used instead of “Standard” and “XS” instead of “Small” or “pediatric”. I thought I’d figured out all the oddities until my boss pointed out an error. One person had switched back and forth between XS, Small and Pediatric which I had just labeled XS. After parsing the filenames and datestamps and product types and request channels the only pattern I could find was that the term “Pediatric” was used if the request was reviewed by a female and “XS” or” Small” was used if the request was approved by a male. Hm…