parsing

How should I parse this simple text file in Java?

I have a text file that looks like this: grn129 agri- ac-214 ahss hud114 ahss lov1150 ahss lov1160 ahss lov1170 ahss lov1210 ahss What is the best way to parse this file using Java if I want to create a HashMap with the first column as the key and the second column as the valu...

Regular Expression library/set to parse sql

Anyone know of any re libraries out there to help parse columns, functions, and values from an SQL WHERE clause? Example strings: COLUMN=='VALUE' COLUMN=='VALUE' AND COLUMN2='VALUE' FUNCTION(COLUMN)==FUNCTION('VALUE') I'm working in Python, but can port most anything over... ...

How can i limit parsing and display the previously parsed contents in iphone?

I am new to iPhone development. I am parsing a URL and displayed its content in the table. On clicking a row it plays a video. When I click a done button, I once again call the tableview. When I call the table view it parses the URL once again to display the contents. I want to limit the parsing for 1 time and for the next time I want to...

How to get a div via PHP?

Hello. I get a page using file_get_contents from a remote server, but I want to filter that page and get a DIV from it that has class "text" using PHP. I started with DOMDocument but I'm lost now. Any help? $file = file_get_contents("xx"); $elements = new DOMDocument(); $elements->loadHTML($file); foreach ($elements as $element) { ...

In search of an easy parser generator

I need a simple parser generator. The language does not matter. It only has to be easy and well documented. ...

jQuery and XML (with CDATA)

I've seen the post that deal with this issue but I still can't solve my issue: I've got XML with CDATA and when I parse the XML, it includes the CDATA (which I don't want). XML sample: <mainnav> <nav path="/" xmlpath="home.xml" key="footer" navigator=""> <display><![CDATA[Home]]></display> <title><![CDATA[Home...

Parse HTML with PHP's HTML DOMDocument

I was trying to do it with "getElementsByTagName", but it wasn't working, I'm new to using DOMDocument to parse HTML, as I used to use regex until yesterday some kind fokes here told me that DOMEDocument would be better for the job, so I'm giving it a try :) I google around for a while looking for some explains but didn't find anything ...

Parser generator for inline documentation

To have a general-purpose documentation system that can extract inline documentation of multiple languages, a parser for each language is needed. A parser generator (which actually doesn't have to be that complete or efficient) is thus needed. http://antlr.org/ is a nice parser generator that already has a number of grammars for popular...

Parsing out information from a LinkedIn profile using VB Script

Does anyone have an example that parses out the information from a LinkedIn profile using VB Script? I have a database which contains client information and I have been including the client Key for LinkedIn in hopes to have it automatically update some or possibly all of the information for that client. Sincerely, Christopher J. Schäre...

Xaml parse exception is thrown when i define a duplex contract

Hi! I've got a WPF application containing a WCF service. The Xaml code is pretty simple: <Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Title="Server" Height="308" Width="560" > <Grid>...

Scala: Can I nudge a combinator parser to be locally greedy?

Suppose I have an ambiguous language expressed in combinator parser. Is there a way to make certain expressions locally greedy? Here's an example of what I mean. import scala.util.parsing.combinator._ object Example extends JavaTokenParsers { def obj: Parser[Any] = (shortchain | longchain) ~ anyrep def longchain: Parser[Any] = zer...

Why does ANTLR not parse the entire input?

Hello, I am quite new to ANTLR, so this is likely a simple question. I have defined a simple grammar which is supposed to include arithmetic expressions with numbers and identifiers (strings that start with a letter and continue with one or more letters or numbers.) The grammar looks as follows: grammar while; @lexer::header { pack...

Regex vs. Manual comparison. Which is faster?

Hello, in writing a scripting engine, I have functions like (psuedo-code) function is_whitespace?(char c){ return c==' ' || c=='\t' || c=='\r' || c=='\n'; } Well, my question is which is faster in most langugaes? That or using regex like function is_whitespace?(char c){ return regex_match('\s',c); } The chief languages I'm conc...

Parsing text file in python

Hello, I have html-file. I have to replace all text between this: [%anytext%]. As I understand, it's very easy to do with BeautifulSoup for parsing hmtl. But what is regular expression and how to remove&write back text data? Okay, here is the sample file: <html> [t1] [t2] ... [tood] ... [sadsada] Sample text [i8] [d9] </html> ...

Convert XML to TCL Object

Greetings, I'm new to TCL scripting, and I have a very very basic xml file which I need to import information from into tcl. Example of XML Document Structure: <object> <type>Hardware</type> <name>System Name</name> <description>Basic Description of System.</description> <attributes> <vendor>Dell</vendor> <contract...

simpledateformat parsing date with 'Z' literal

I am trying to parse a date that looks like this: 2010-04-05T17:16:00Z This is a valid date per http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt. The 'Z' literal "imply that UTC is the preferred reference point for the specified time." If I try to parse it using SimpleDateFormat and this pattern: yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss It will be parsed as a...

Parsing GeoRSS Feed with jQuery

I'm attempting to use the jQuery jFeed plugin for parsing an Atom, GeoRSS feed and I'm running into issues extracting the information I need. For example, I need to extract the summary element and I would like to render the contents in a div on my HTML page. Additionally, I'd like to extract the contents from the georss:point elements an...

UITableView not displaying parsed data

I have a UITableView which is setup in Interface Builder and connected properly to its class in Xcode. I also have a "Importer" Class which downloads and parses an RSS feed and stores the information in an NSMutableArray. However I have verified the parsing is working properly (using breakpoints and NSlog) but no data is showing in the ...

Natural Language parsing of an appointment?

I'm looking for a Java library to help parse user entered text that represents an 'appointment' for a calendar application. For instance: Lunch with Mike at 11:30 on Tuesday or 5pm Happy hour on Friday I've found some promising leads like https://jchronic.dev.java.net/ and http://www.datejs.com/ which can parse dates - but I also n...

Parsing a website

I want to make a program that takes as user input a website address. The program then goes to that website, downloads it, and then parses the information inside. It outputs a new html file using the information from the website. Specifically, what this program will do is take certain links from the website, and put the links in the ou...