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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Can someone help in checking the file parsing logic in c++?
I have a file in the following format :
Startpoint: reg_4A
Endpoint: reg_49A
slack (VIOLATED) -0.157
Startpoint: reg_12A
Endpoint: reg_14A
slack (VIOLATED) -0.12
I need to parse the above ...
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Break text into letters (regular Unicode graphemes+language specific digraphs)
In English, "Sh" is two letters. In other languages it's considered a single letter. I'm trying to calculate the length of a string in a Unicode aware way, with this in mind. I'm imagining a function ...
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C++ Building Parse Tree with Boost and Modern C++
I am writing a parser. To build up the tree, I need to find the correct type for my node based on text from my language input file. Right now, I have a map from a string (the node name) to a factory ...
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Parse data into an array of structs
I'd had a hard time getting this to work. I’d like to parse a file containing data and copy this data into a struct.
The data file (test.dat) looks like this:
<...
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Rust Torrent Parser
I wrote a simple Torrent file parser. The following program accepts a file and builds a Torrent structure based on the contents on the file. If the file is invalid, the app crashes (as intended).
It'...
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Nested for-loops in xml parsing
I wrote program that reads and processes xml files submitted by external users. The part of the code in question iterates over xml node's children, appends a dictionary - a future row in a table, and ...
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Apply smiley replacement filter to Pandoc but not in code segments
I wrote a filter for pandas that converts :-) to ☺ but not in inline code or code blocks. Pandoc makes it so the ...
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Ensuring a valid JavaScript string in security-critical application
I'm writing an application where users can write custom expressions which are then converted to JavaScript functions and executed. The expressions are used for filtering and sorting data from a ...
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Python process tracklist, get cumulative timestamp of each track
The code below parses a tracklist (sample input below) and generates a six-member tuple, including cumulative timestamps in mm:ss. (sample output at bottom).
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script to check sequence number in a binary file
This is a script to check the sequence number (8 bit unsigned integer) in a binary file and make sure it is incrementing till the end and not missing any sequence number in between. Sequence number is ...
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Function to parse VB.NET Like pattern
VB.NET has a Like operator with a paradigm similar to the standard SQL LIKE expression (SQL Server, SQLite, MySQL), but with a ...
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Parse a simple key=value config file in C
Write a program that should read a file formatted strictly like
this below:
$ cat sample
bingo=2
bingo2=939
bingo3=text
The left and right side of ...
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Tab 2 spaces convertor (for markdown)
This program converts glob files' tabs to spaces.
There is a special case to ignore content inside triple back ticks.
Example usage is ./tab_2_spaces.py *.md
Main ...
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Command String Parser
I'm working on a library that, in essence, splits a string at whitespace, with extra rules:
Consecutive whitespace is collapsed, and trimmed at the start and end.
Whitespace wrapped in quotes is not ...
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Footwear scraper
I've done this parser to scrape all footwear data, but I don't know if it is good to use OOP in this case. Can you please check this out and give me the strongest feedback? I'm working on improving my ...
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Convert a string like 4h53m12s to a total number of seconds in JavaScript
At the moment I have this:
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git status parser using regular expressions in javascript
I'm looking for improvements of a code that filter the output of git status --ignored and git status --ignored -bs commands. I ...
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Parser for STL stereolithography data files [closed]
I'm parsing STL files to load the coordinates. My code is:
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Wavefront 3D Obj parser/viewer
For learning Rust I decided to make a 3D .obj viewer. I wrote a simplified OBJ parser without materials that only supports triangles.
Considering I'm completely new to Rust and don't really know ...
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Parse source code of the RAPID robot-automation language
I am new to C, and I have very little formal education on programming (Although I am currently in college). I work as a Robot Automation technician, and me and my team are required to document a lot ...
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JSON Parser, pulls data from a JSON file for analysis
This is the first time I have programmed something that I will actually personally use, so I am happy about that. I tried to write good code whilst applying functional programming concepts. So no ...
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Speeding up thousands of string parses
I have a mapping application which takes string arguments in the form of string arrays. I parse these and then perform an action on the map. One of these is ...
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Email Generator
I've made a email generator, that uses a HTML template and replaces keywords in the template with information taken from a database. I'm looking to see if there is a way to improve the coding.
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Parse date format in Pandas using Python
I have a column in a Pandas Dataframe containing birth dates in object/string format:
0 16MAR39
1 21JAN56
2 18NOV51
3 05MAR64
4 05JUN48
I want to ...
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Reading and parsing binary file from CAEN Digitizer (written by WaveDump)
Preliminaries
I have CAEN Digitizer N6720A and use WaveDump software for the data acquisition and recording.
As a result of data recording this software produces a binary file in which the sequence ...
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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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Parse header information [closed]
Concrete Context: I parse the header information from curl execution/request and get the array named $headerARR. At this point it looks like the next example, but ...
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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 ...
