Questions tagged [parsing]
Parsing is the process of analysing a string of symbols, either in natural language or in computer languages, conforming to the rules of a formal grammar.
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Compact command line argument parser : Revisited
This question is a follow up to my previous one which can be found here.
The user dfhwze suggested me to look into compiler construction and recommended me to write a lexer and a parser that would ...
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Compact command line argument parser
So, I decided to write my own little command line argument parser for various other projects I work on. I am aware that there are many good command line parser libraries, but I did wrote my own anyway ...
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A simple TCP command executer
In https://github.com/pc-magas/tcp_command as an attempt to learn C++ I made a simplistic TCP server in GNU/Linux that will receives simple "commands" in ASCII form. Each command ends with '\n' and a ...
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Parsing Game Entities
Could use some help with my presentation in Software Development. I'm presenting how I reworked a game's parser (SpaceTaxi). Basically we take in a .txt file with ASCII characters and convert them ...
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Credit card validation in C
I am relatively new to C programming and I am currently working through the CS50 EDX course. The problem I have solved below is for week 1 (credit).
Any suggestions on how to improve this code to ...
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Parsing Long Excel Report Files for Predefined Results
I work as an IT intern in a multinational and I was given a tedious task of combing through a 2500+ long multi-column excel report file in search of inactive servers.
Here's a sample row from that ...
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Try Parse Multiple Types
I am trying to write a method that takes in a String and returns an Object. The catch is I want to parse it to one of a few ...
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helper function to determine if html text is wrapped with a certain tag
I have this code that I've made to parse a string of HTML and tell me if it is all enclosed within a specified tag:
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Extract Information from Egyptian National ID
I did a script to extract information from the Egyptian national ID, e.g. national id is 14 digit ex(29501023201952). It could divide as described below:
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Getting the count of how many times a route has been hit
I have this log file (example below) and I'm trying to find the number of times a particular route is called.
Example log file:
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Function to extract float from different price patterns
I've got a project where I get product data and need to get the prices which come in, in different formats.
Some examples would be: US$17, USD17.00, 17,00€, 17€, GBP17, Only 17,-€, 17.000,00€, 17,000....
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Simple function to create Tokens from user input
I am new to programming in Rust and as an exercise I was making a simple Lottery checker program.
It has a simple menu, the user enters a number for the corresponding option such as 'Add a line', '...
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Lazy, Functional Parser Combinators
Parser Combinators are the amazingly elegant way to write parsers that has evolved over on the functional programming side of the world, but have been less available or accessible for imperative ...
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Union based encoding of .csv file into a data table with different types [closed]
I am writing a program that has a row-based data table class. It also has an encoder class that is intended to take in some .csv data and convert it into a 2darray of encoded data of unknown type at ...
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Analyzing a web access log to obtaining totals for requests
This program takes the filename as the input and outputs to a file the number of requests that were more than 1000 bytes and the total bytes.
Log file example:
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Split calculation string into parts
Our professor has given us the following task (its part of a bigger document full of tasks):
Write a function in C that handles strings like "233+343" and parse them into the variables "iNum1", "cOp" ...
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Extracting the parent, leaf, and extension from a valid path
Powershell has the Split-Path cmdlet which allows you to extract the Parent and Leaf of a file. In PS version 6, you can extract the extension, with the ...
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Parsing parameters for a potential function
Background
A forcefield is a collection of functions and parameters that is used to calculate the potential energy of a complex system. I have text files which contain data about the parameters for a ...
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Determine if a String can be parsed to LocalDateTime or Int
I have the following kotlin function that takes in a string "value", then attempts to parse "value" as both a LocalDateTime and an Int. It returns a Pair of the parsed value of "value" and an enum ...
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Extract the IP address from the output of ipconfig when connected to multiple wireless networks
I am trying to extract the ip address of my machine when connected to multiple wireless networks. The motivation here is then I can make a socket connection on that ip when I have two networks that ...
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Parsing version from Cargo.toml
I want to get version from Cargo.toml and use the value inside my app. Here is a function I wrote:
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.NET Custom hierarchical expression to treeview data structure
I'm not good at English.
It's gonna be hard to read.
I apologize in advance.
I need expression parser for draw diagram(fault tree).
In order to do that I have to create data structure from ...
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Factorio analysis: data munging
This project is... a little ridiculous. It's working, but it's a complete mess.
Data about Factorio's game economy are pulled from the wiki via the MediaWiki API, scrubbed, preprocessed, and thrown ...
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C++ Saving And Loading Data For A Game To a Text File Using fstream
So i have written this code to save and load data for my C++ game to a file, this way I don't have to hard code every single room and item for the game. Essentially here's how the game works: So you ...
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Parsing pairs of a number or number range
I need to process an array of number pairs. Here are the constraints on the pairs:
The second item may be missing, in this case 0 will be used as second item - - 38...
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AST Visitor Pattern in Java
I am trying to make a simple expression evaluator in Java using Jacc (a parser generator). I am done with the AST creation and now need to create an evaluator. For this I made a simple test to try to ...
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Method to remove comments from a string line
There is some language where the following are considered comments:
[str] // comment
[str] /* comment */ [str]
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Parse a date in various formats
I have a problem similar to the question, namely reading in text which describes a date - in various formats. I want to use the parseTimeM function from ...
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Substituting variable placeholders that may be intermixed with HTML tags
I needed to substitute variables of the syntax {FIRST_NAME} in a HTML template. The problem is that the template comes from a WYSIWYG system, and so the ...
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Parse dblp XML and output sums of publications grouped by year and type
The following Go program parses a gzipped XML file (available here) which contains bibliographic information on computer science publications and has the following indicative structure:
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(Codewars): Find the Unknown Digit
Kata: https://www.codewars.com/kata/find-the-unknown-digit/train/python
To give credit where credit is due: This problem was taken from the ACMICPC-Northwest Regional Programming Contest. Thank ...
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segstr - Get delimiter-separated segments from a string in a non-destructive method
I wrote my first useful function in C which can be used in a different variety of situations as an alternative to common code logic.
segstr (originally named ...
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Parsing a string of key-value pairs as a dictionary
I always use nested list and dictionary comprehension for unstructured data and this is a common way I use it.
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Parsing a string to a java LocalTime
I have a method that can take in a time string in one of the following formats:
HHmmss - e.g. 073055 = 07:30:55
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Dynamically Generating XML Deserialization Classes / Code: Part I, Reading
I'm building an IntelliJ Plugin which will allow a person to select an XML file (and even a snippet of XML in the file, if they like) and, using a really brief GUI, generate classes / code in one of a ...
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Javascript cron-to-human-readable translator
I'm developing a webpage displaying the scheduled pipelines from all projects of a GitLab instance. The scheduled time is expressed using CRON expressions, i.e. five digits as follows:
Because not ...
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Esoteric programming language in Ruby
I have recently created an esoteric programming language called 01 and I will be grateful for a code review and any opinions or suggestions about the future of this language.
GitHub
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Token generator for Valve Data Format parser in Java
I'm looking to parse a reduced subset of the Valve Data Format (VDF). It is similar to JSON, allowing representation of key-value collections (maps) with arbitrary recursion. As a small example:
<...
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Wrapping argparse to use configuration file
I want to be able to both provide options through command line and from a configuration file. A single option could be served either by the user or by the configuration. But if is provided by both, ...
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if you gaze long enough into strtok, strtok will gaze back into you
The tokenise function below splits a given string at the indicated delimiters. As with strtok, it modifies the string by adding <...
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Parse and TryParse methods for phone numbers [closed]
Let's assume I have a class PhoneNumber which accepts phone numbers in the format "123-456-789" (3 groups with 3 digits each, split by dashes). Now, I want to ...
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Perl one-liner for parsing host names from ssh config file
Here is the working code (intended to be executed with perl -e '<code>' ~/.ssh/config):
Actual version:
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Chemical Formula Parser
As an exercise, I wrote a simple context free parser modeled from a pushdown automaton for chemical formulas such as NO2 or ...
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A faux parser for fdf files
Introduction
If you know what FDF files are, you can skip this section.
PDF files sometimes includes form fields. These fields can be represented as FDF in plain text form, extracted using certain ...
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Creating objects from xml-data
I've got an XML file with some info about hosts connected to my home network and I would like to create objects containing that info in a neat way, so that I can make some nice front-end application ...
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C++ program that processes unique markup language similar to HTML
I have solved a task which takes input in a unique markup language. In this language each element consists of a starting and closing tag. Only starting tags can have attributes. Each attribute has a ...
