Parsing refers to the action by software of breaking an artifact into its constituent elements and capturing the relationship between those elements.
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XML to Windows.Forms.Keys List
It took me a lot of poking around and unit testing to get the code to look like it is right now. So I have a XML file which in part looks like this
<FunctionKeys>
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Have I missed some obvious XSS vulnerabilities?
As the question states: have I missed some obvious security vulnerabilities in this code? Particularly interested in XSS...
I'm trying to create something more robust that strip_tags, but simpler ...
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ruby notes scrubber search for specific characters [closed]
I am looking to making a not scrubber for my testing notes. I want to run a script that will read the entire file looking for special "tags" that I made in my notes, like @ ? (c) etc...
I then want to ...
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Critiques on a trivially easy to use Python CSV class
I have been working on a project where I needed to analyze multiple, large datasets contained inside many CSV files at the same time. I am not a programmer but an engineer so I did a lot of searching ...
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How to make this BigRational parsing method more efficient?
I'm using the BigRational beta off the BCL CodePlex (bcl.codeplex.com), and I realized it had no parsing method. So I tried to write one. However, it's quite inefficient (5.5ms for a 254 character ...
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download an image from a webpage
I originally posted this on stackoverflow and was recommended that I post here, so I apologize if you see this twice:)
I am trying to write a python script that download an image from a webpage.on ...
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How would one more elegantly parse data from XML using Ruby and Nokogiri?
I have a method that parses XML into an array of hashes.
Here is the original XML:
<rowset name="skillqueue" key="queuePosition" ...
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Get metadata from an Icecast radio stream
I am new to Python and not very familiar with advanced Python data structures.
I have written a function to receive data from a socket in Python and perform string manipulations on it. The basic ...
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How should I read coordinates from a text file?
I have a text file with lines that look like this:
Robot(479.30432416307934|98.90610653676828)
Robot(186.42081184420528|213.11277688981409)
Robot(86.80794277768825|412.1359734884495)
or, more ...
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Custom parser for named parameters in prepared statement
I'm creating a small extension to the JDBC API, with the hope of automating some common tasks and avoid boilerplate code.
One of its features will be a basic support for named parameters in prepared ...
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Pair Programming matrix: room for improvement?
At work, we have a "pair programming ladder" where you can keep track of who is pairing with whom (based on check-ins). The idea is to promote "promiscuous pairing" where each developer eventually ...
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Char* hex string to BYTE Array
The idea is that i want any size string to put the corresponding hex value into a byte array. I've seen a million ways to do it. Some of them didn't look to clean. My needs are speed over memory, so ...
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String parser review
So the task is that a string being passed to one of my methods looks like this
<DIV><GKY><UID><END>
it is generated this way from another program, so it will always have that ...
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RGB Color Name Matching using Euclidean Distance (Improved)
The code below stems from work on a Euclidean Distance algorithm. The color table was simply a vehicle to test the algorithm. It is perhaps reinventing the wheel, however it is useful in itself. ...
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Parsing large text area - difficulty extracting info - Javascript [closed]
I am writing a program that will deal with formatting the text in a text area.
The user will use Ctrl + A, Ctrl + C to copy the entirety of a web page, then paste that text into a text area. The ...
