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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Preprocessing invalid xml before feeding it to a parser
As part of a larger project I'm writing to learn C++, I'm trying to read through some almost-XML files generated by another program. Unfortunately this program uses its own custom escaping logic, so ...
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Yet another .ini parser for AutoHotKey
I decided to learn a little about AutoHotKey, to practice a little and learn about classes.
I ended up writting a basic ini file parser.
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Extracting items from comma/semicolon-delimited strings, discarding parts after a hyphen
New Scala dev here. Is there a more idiomatic or efficient way to accomplish this in Scala?
Given a list of the following strings, I need to obtain the unique 'main parts' once any parts including ...
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Suggestions on making this parsing/unparsing format more human-friendly
I am working on some application which involves regular expressions with counting. Also, these regular expressions are not necessarily over some fixed alphabet, but over some class of predicates over ...
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Convert ASCII representations of phonetics to Unicode characters
Here is some working code for converting an input string to an output string:
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User input, floats, ints and ranges
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So I am writing a larger script where a part of it is checking user input. Maybe I have a menu where the user can choose different options, or maybe I want them to write in some number/s. After ...
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C key: value file parser
I implemented a key:value format file parser in C, or something that comes close to it as there is no such thing as dynamically creating structs in C.
Assumptions: we are creating a C program that ...
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C string parser criticism
I have written a program to parse a string depending on the string the user provides.
Any advise/criticism is appreciated.
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Count characters, words, and lines in files (wc in rust)
I wrote a barebones version of wc in rust. wc is a program that counts the number of characters, words, and lines in a file and ...
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Poor man's JIT using nested lambdas
While answering this code review question, I came up with a way to convert an equation given at runtime to a std::function<double(double)> that would evaluate ...
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Lisp expression parser
I'm building a very simple Lisp interpreter. Similar to the the one from here. Here is what I have so far for the parsing part, that is, everything from "text is passed to the the program" ...
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Parsing glider data from IGC files
I have to do a program in PHP that reads IGC files like this IGC file and gets records about the glider.
For now I came up with something like this:
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Calculator in C - Parsing arithmetic expression using the shunting-yard algorithm
This is a simple arithmetic calculator, which parses mathematical expressions specified in infix notation using the shunting-yard algorithm. This is one of my personal projects and I would love to ...
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Asynchronous web scraping
This is my solution to a "vacancy test" task.
I'm not sure at all if I have correctly implemented the task, but here is my solution.
Goals of code:
Parse rows of table from a URL and ...
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Text replacement with Räubersprache (“Røversprog”)
I've been toying with Haskell again and implementing a simple text replacement program that replaces all consonants c in a text by coc, i.e., inserting an 'o' in between:
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Separate an email address into its username and domain name
This is my first ever Python program and I wanted to get everyone's opinions on it. The goal of the program is to separate an email address into its username and domain name.
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Parse sequence of characters detecting formatting categories
I am a beginner coder and SonarLint tells me code is too complex. I tried recursion, iterators, slicing but had not luck making this code any simpler.
The code will parse the input string to detect ...
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JSON4 parser in Typescript
Context
I may have accidentally gotten a little sidetracked during homeschooling, and wrote a JSON4 parser in Typescript during the down-time. This project started as an idea that I got while ...
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Company database REPL program in Rust for Chapter 8 of The Book
Using a hash map and vectors, create a text interface to allow a user
to add employee names to a department in a company. For example, “Add
Sally to Engineering” or “Add Amir to Sales.” Then let the ...
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Parse file and make output in custom List [closed]
I have a file output like this and want to do parsing and put the output into a List. The biggest problem here is the name of a wake-lock which appears after ID and runtime, in some cases, it contains ...
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Can this parser (concerning about infinite hierarchy of operators) be implemented purely in ReadPrec?
In Haskell, I tried to implement a parser for expressions containing hyperoperations, and finally succeeded. Valid expressions shall contain:
Parentheses.
Nonnegative integers.
Addition represented ...
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Custom HTML parser in Haskell
For the last couple of months, I have started to learn Haskell and since I am following a course on functional programming soon, I thought I would test my current skills. So what I did was create an ...
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Parsing overly complex JSON
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary API at some point discontinued the use of XML in favor of exclusively returning JSON. This had the unfortunate effect of making finding a definition listed by sense ...
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Parse proxy strings to array of objects
The goal of this module is to take in a string (user input, someone copy and pasting a large list of proxies) and parse it into an array of objects.
I appreciate any and all feedback, but I'm ...
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A postfix (a.k.a. Reverse-Polish Notation - RPN) calculator
As an exercise, I put together a postfix calculator using modern Fortran. Language apart, I am interested in knowing your take on the algorithm. As far as I remember from my freshman year (chemistry - ...
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Advent of Code 2020 - Day 3: tobogganing down a slope
Previous: Advent of Code 2020 - Day 2: validating passwords
Problem statement
I decided to take a shot at Advent of Code 2020 to exercise my Rust knowledge. Here's the task for Day 3:
Day 3: ...
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Terminal Calculator/Parser Inspired by gcalccmd
My program takes input from the user in two ways:
By passing input as an argument whilst calling the command
By taking any number of inputs after calling the command
The program is a terminal ...
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Python: Parse string of bracketed list items into list of strings
I have a string containing several items listed in the following notation:
myString = '[A][B][C]'
And I would like to parse that to a python list of several ...
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Parse Certain C++ Headers and Dynamically Generate Other Headers Containing Boilerplate Code
A link to the pull request in question.
I maintain a C++ DLL / Game Maker library that constructs an environment that allows one to call any game maker script/function from within the C++ dll directly....
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Parsing a JSON one line at a time in Python
happy 2021 everyone!
I started coding some months ago for fun and recently I challenged myself to build a JSON parser in Python (v3.8).
The basic idea was to avoid loading the whole file at once, ...
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Simple Haskell Parser
I'm very new to haskell (I never used Monads, Functors and other things) and FP in general. I decided to write the simplest parser I possibly can with some expansion possibilities. (I have a general ...
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Parsing values from string into struct using match in Julia
My goal
I am parsing from a string which contains token:value pairs into a type.
Example:
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Extract values from English numerals, e.g. “nine million and one”
Though many have done it the other way around, I have not seen such code in many places. And, to be honest, I don't know why this cluster of if-statements, ...
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BNF for a number
I'm looking to learn and practice parsing, and so I have started with writing an EBNF for a number (using the python interpreter as an example of possible inputs).
Here is what I have so far (also ...
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Message encode/decode library
I write protocol messages encoder/decoder for my project.
All messages have 2-bytes header (1 byte - message type, 1 byte message sub-type) and body.
There are two types of messages:
Plain message - ...
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Decode alphabet encoded message
Inspired by another Q I finally made a version that groups permutable regions into parentheses. Non-ambigous sequences are outside of parens.
Here the original problem:
Given the mapping a = 1, b = 2,...
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Parsing “key: value” format in which values can span multiple lines
So I've written a function which parses a fairly simple key-value pair syntax.
Each pair can span across multiple lines, as long as the value does not have a colon in it. If it does, then any new line ...
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Parsing a Chess FEN
What is an FEN?
Link to the Wikipedia page: Forsyth–Edwards Notation
An FEN is a very simple way of representing a chess position in a single line string. It contains the following data
Which piece ...
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Simple single css node parser written in rust
I am new to rust and I wrote a little program that takes a part CSS selector and returns the name of the element and two vectors containing its attributes (classes, ids)
Example
div#menu.big.pink =&...
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A simple parser generator
I need to parse simple DSLs in a few projects. Since I don't know BNF or other grammars, I figured an alternative would be to use a simple parser generator.
I'm looking for improvements to the lexer/...
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C# Logical and Math expression parser
I needed a simple parser that could do both logical and math operations expressed in a string, as well as being able to use variables stored in json.
None of what I found online seemed to do all of ...
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Separating data from string representation of objects, with added extras
Given a string representation of data, I want to extract the information into its corresponding object.
However,
If the string has "|" separators then these should be considered options and ...
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Handle missing children nodes when parsing XML into a dictionary
I work on a code-base that uses xml to set up problems and specify model parameters. I've created a script that I run in tandem with our code. This script will ...
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FASTA-to-tsv conversion script
I worked on a script that takes as input a multi-sequence .fasta file and outputs the number of each aminoacid/sequence in a .tsv...
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Counting Characters from an HTML File with Python
I just completed level 2 of The Python Challenge on pythonchallenge.com and I am in the process of learning python so please bear with me and any silly mistakes I may have made.
I am looking for some ...
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URL parser in C
Title should be self-explenatory. This is a simple URL parser I wrote in C. The function takes a URL from the user and produces a struct that contains the information that can be used to request the ...
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parse date and number from API results
I'm slurping up fields from an API that returns an array of fields. Each field in the array is a String that actually contains two separate fields (a number and a date). The number is enclosed in ...
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