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Redirect and parse in realtime stdout of an long running process in vb.net

Hello there, This code executes "handbrakecli" (a command line application) and places the output into a string: Dim p As Process = New Process p.StartInfo.FileName = "handbrakecli" p.StartInfo.Arguments = "-i [source] -o [destination]" p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = False p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = True p.Start Dim outpu...

Using regex to extract variables from a plain-text form letter?

Hi - I'm looking for a good example of using Regular Expressions in PHP to "reverse engineer" a form letter (with a known format, of course) that has been pasted into a multiline textbox and sent to a script for processing. So, for example, let's assume this is the original plain-text input (taken from a USDA press release): WASHING...

Excel parsing (xls) date error

I'm working on a project where I have to parse excel files for a client to extract data. An odd thing is popping up here: when I parse a date in the format of 5/9 (may 9th) in the excel sheet, I get 39577 in my program. I'm not sure if the year is encoded here (it is 2008 for these sheets). Are these dates the number of days since some ...

How to build a sentence parser using only the c++ standared library?

Hello everyone, I am designing a text based game similar to Zork, and I would like it to able to parse a sentance and draw out keywords such TAKE, DROP ect. The thing is, I would like to do this all through the standard c++ library... I have heard of external libraries (such as flex/bison) that effectively accomplish this; however I don...

Question About MP4(AAC) Binary Tree

I'm in the very early stages of working on a tag editor for mp4 files and more specifically iTunes AAC ones. After doing some snooping around it seems that the file's structure is not as complicated as I first thought and is built in a sort of tree like the following 4 Bytes [Atom Length] 4 Bytes [Atom Name] X Bytes [Atom Data] An ...

Shift-reduce: when to stop reducing?

I'm trying to learn about shift-reduce parsing. Suppose we have the following grammar, using recursive rules that enforce order of operations, inspired by the ANSI C Yacc grammar: S: A; P : NUMBER | '(' S ')' ; M : P | M '*' P | M '/' P ; A : M | A '+' M | A '-' M ; And we want to parse ...

The Best Way to Parse Dates from an Email

Im currently developing an app that can parse dates from an email - i.e extract the time and dates from an email (similar to gmail). Currently I do this in php but this is a tad clunky. Whats the best language to do this in and are there any existing open source solutions? ...

how to convert html to csv ?

is there a html parser or some library that automatically converts html page into csv data rows ? ...

Read alphanumeric characters from csv file in C#

I am using the following code to read my csv file: public DataTable ParseCSV(string path) { if (!File.Exists(path)) return null; string full = Path.GetFullPath(path); string file = Path.GetFileName(full); string dir = Path.GetDirectoryName(full); //create the "database" connectio...

How to parse text fragments located outside tags (inbetween tags) by simplehtmldom?

Hello! I'm using simplehtmldom to parse html and I'm stuck in parsing plaintext located outside of any tag (but between two different tags): <div class="text_small"> <b>Аdress:</b> 7 Hange Road<br> <b>Phone:</b> 415641587484<br> <b>Contact:</b> Alex<br> <b>Meeting Time:</b> 12:00-13:00<br> </div> Is it possible to get...

How do I parse this simple XML in C#?

I want parse a SOAP xml response in C# (but I can't use standard SOAP interface, because wsld is incorrect). When parsing I want to have all elements with name (list element with name) and access to all its children. The overall appearance of the XML: <return> <item> <attr1>1</attr1> <attr2>X</attr2> </item> <item> <att...

PHP Parse Error Help Needed

I am receiving this PHP parse error on the last line of this php file. What am I missing? Here is the last 15 lines or so. <div id="footer"> <br /> <p><b>Member Total:</b><?php echo $database->getNumMembers(); ?> <br>There are <?php echo $database->num_active_users; ?> registered members and <?php $...

Best tools to parse reports

I have a report that I need to parse/scrape for loading into an alternate or query-able data store. The report looks like something akin to: this. My gut is that PERL would do a decent job, but I have several different permutations of the report and I don't really want to make a script around each form. This report is a pretty stock ...

hand coding a parser

For all you compiler gurus, I wanna write a recursive descent parser and I wanna do it with just code. No generating lexers and parsers from some other grammar and don't tell me to read the dragon book, i'll come around to that eventually. I wanna get into the gritty details about implementing a lexer and parser for a reasonable simple ...

how to parse jquery ajax xhtml response?

Sorry if this has been posted many times. But I've tried many variations and it still doesn't work. The HTML comes back from the jquery AJAX call fine and I am trying to remove the header and footers from the response using: // none of these work for me $("#content", data); $("#content", $(data)); $(data).find("#content").html() I'v...

XML String into a DataGridView (C#)

I am currently working with a webservice to pull a report about users in a remote support system. After pulling my report and receiving the result, I am given the following string back by the method: <report><header><field id="0">Source</field><field id="1">Session ID</field><field id="2">Date</field><field id="3">Name</field><field ...

string parsing to double fails in C++ (Xcode problem?)

Here's a fun one I've been trying to figure out. I have the following program: #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <sstream> using namespace std; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { string s("5"); istringstream stream(s); double theValue; stream >> theValue; cout << theValue << endl; cout << stream...

extract specific element from nested elements using lxml html

Hi all I am having some problems that I think can be attributed to xpath problems. I am using the html module from the lxml package to try and get at some data. I am providing the most simplified situation below, but keep in mind the html I am working with is much uglier. <table> <tr> <td> <table> <tr><td></t...

NSConcreteData leaked object in objective c ?

Hi Guys, I am getting the NSConcreteData leaked object while testing the leaks in the instruments.It showing in the parser, - (void)parseXMLFileAtURL:(NSURL *)URL { [urlList release]; urlList = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init]; myParser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:URL] ;// it showing this line as leaking [myPar...

MODX: Snippet strips and hangs string when parsing the vars.

Hey all i have a snippet call like this: [!mysnippet?&content=`[*content*]` !] What happen is that, if i send some html like this: [!mysnippet?&content=`<p color='red'>Yeah</p>` !] it will return this: <p colo the [test only] snippet code (mysnippet) is: <?php return $content; ?> Why is this happening? My actual snippet is c...