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Conditionally splitting a string [closed]

My requirement is: dest = comp ; jump // Either the dest or jump fields may be empty. If dest is empty, the "=" is omitted; If jump is empty, the ";" is omitted. So I may have something like ...
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Filename interpreter for TV shows

I have small class which interprets TV show filenames to extract the show title and episode number. Due to the nature of the filenames, I have chosen for a cleaning approach: I clean the filename ...
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Stripping leading tab of each line from a file

I've got this Python code: ...
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Empty Line delimiter, single line output

I'm used to only processing, at most, one line of a file at a time. This is my first time changing the delimiter, and the objective here is to take a file containing lines such as: ...
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Efficient Strip Special Characters

I have a private function in PHP that takes a given URL string and just leave the Alpha or numeric and certain punctuation left. I need the stripping of string due to having it match against ...
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Efficient JavaScript/jQuery typewriter effect that handles HTML5, entities, and text

How should this code be improved? For instance: How could it be shorter, clearer, deal with memory better, use a plugin/library, better prepared for web input? I can break up and clarify the regex ...
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Search/sort/create functionality, implements bubblesort and sequential search

I've moved my main() to the bottom of the code block in order to fit it all in one class for this submission. If there is a better way to do it? ...
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Vowels in a string, patterns

Checking if all five vowels are present in a string. ...
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Find free username based on schema

Hopefully this is not too complicated. I have this code that will generate a username based on the pre-configured schema the admin types in. The fields they can use are: ...
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Repeatedly fetching a URL until the response contains “state: INIT”

I am working on a project in which I need to make a URL call to one of my servers from a bash shell script. http://hostname.domain.com:8080/beat After hitting the above URL, I will be getting ...
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Press any login button on any site

I'm working on a script that will be able to press the login button on any site for an app I'm working on. I have it working (still a few edge cases to work out such as multiple submit buttons and ...
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A simple Ruby EmailAddress class

I wrote this short, plain Ruby lib to handle email address validation inside and outside of Rails applications, and I would like to know what you think. ...
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Regex to parse URIs for their correctness according to RFC 3986

I recently came to write a regex to parse URIs. Now I wonder, did I miss something? Did I make a mistake or could I have written it cleaner? That's why I'm here. In order to write the regex, I took ...
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SMS relay --> MySQL database

The main purpose of my program is to extract GPS information from text messages sent to several GSM modems send from various GPS tracking devices. The main flow of my program loops in three steps: ...
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Multiplying Lists

Challenge: Given 2 lists of positive integers. Write a program which multiplies corresponding elements in these lists Specifications: Your program should accept as its first argument a ...
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Redirecting all pages under a certain directory to a single file

I want to redirect all pages under a certain directory to a single file, like so: /dir/a/dir/new ...
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Optimize huge text file search

I have several huge 100MB text files that I need to scan through to pick out certain frame numbers which relate to a specific log packet of interest. My plan was to scan for these frame numbers and ...
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Pulling thread data from Invision power board from an external java application

What I am planning on doing is pulling the first post of my news section, this was made for V bulletin and now I need to add it for IPb. ...
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Inserting persons in file into SQLite

I've just started working with SQLite in C# to test various features of an application. In building my first SQLite example I wanted to insert a large .csv into a table (Person) with two columns, A ...
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Capitalize the first character of all words (even when following a '-')

I got it working, all variations are displayed Sint-Anna as should be, but I wonder, is there a simpler way to this, since it looks very cluttered? ...
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Regex for matching a US phone number

I have written my first regex: ...
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An easier way to test a valid username

I have the following requirement for valid usernames: Only alphanumeric characters and - Must not start with a - I wrote this regex (on Rubular): ...
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Regex for allowing only alphanumerical characters [closed]

This is my first regex: ^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9\/]*[\/]$ I want to: Only match alphanumeric at the beginning The last character must be a "/" Only alphanumeric ...
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Regex to Match Email address

I have the below regex to match email address with atleast one @ and one . ...
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Regex for curly quotes and apostrophes

After years of fear and procrastination I decided to learn regular expressions. This is the result: CoffeScript: ...
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Dynamically display relevant form elements

Here is a group of questions (hidden by default except the first one) with yes|no buttons ...
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Follow-up to Morse Code String

This is probably one of the many follow-ups coming. What I have edited: Added equals() and hashCode() Added ...
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HTML to plain text converter

Please, review the code below. Test class: ...
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HTML Compressor with regex

I would like to compress a Magento HTML page using some regex, and this is what I have written: ...
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Extract room sizes & room types from an estate description with regex

I'm trying to extract room types and sizes from a descriptive text utilizing the following scripts as an exercise. Any tips on being more pythonic would be amazing! The script is based off the help I ...
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I think I might be having a regex nightmare

I've been working on the Rubberduck (an add-in for the VBA Editor /"VBE"), specifically here the VBA.Parser namespace. Here's how I ended up implementing the syntax ...
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Parsing Lua 5.2 strings with patterns

I wrote some code to parse Lua 5.2 strings in Lua 5.1, using patterns. It's a bit too slow, but it works fine as far as I tested. ...
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Optimizing regex alternation, ability to view which choice matched?

So I've got a regular expression parsing tcp responses from a music daemon. In case responses pile up I've come up with an expression to separate full responses from the data, however I'd like to also ...
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Perl 6 oneliner to sum up all numbers in a text file

The task is to sum up scores mentioned in a text file. Scores are floating point numbers as defined by the regexp float immediately preceded by a * character to ...
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Replace while loop with sed

I have a script for school that mimics the cp command. Part of the assignment is to modify the script so that the while loop (that assigns stdin to the variable filelist) is instead done with sed. ...
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Regex matching keys in a Dictionary

I have extended this class http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/CSharpMessenger_Extended to accept strings containing wildcards as eventTypes, therefore I am able to ...
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Automatic report generation from BibTeX

I wrote the following code for the question I asked here. Are there any catastrophic mistakes? (actually it did not really work with perltex and I am in doubt about having syntax mistake(s)) Also, I ...
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Some simple Perl and Regex

Reads from a flat file of three columns, delimited by at least one tab character. Filters the three columns based on input; returns list of corresponding emails. Arguments passed like ...
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The Bucketizer Script

This code is written in a SSIS Script Component that basically accomplishes what I previously had as a T-SQL script, that was reviewed here. I need to split a 80 character string that contains 20 ...
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Searching text for a string

This is my current code: ...
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Substituting Hebrew letter variants

I have two functions that replace letters. In one function, I'm replacing a regular Hebrew letter with its final form, and the other function undoes this operation. (Consider it like ...
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replace() for translating color names

I have some code to translate some color names, and this is what I did, quick and dirty. But I'm guessing there might be some function to replace arrays with arrays maybe, like in PHP, where you can ...
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Removing stray brackets from in between shortcodes

I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction for cleaning up this code. WordPress uses shortcodes in the form [shortcode] to add extended functionality to posts and pages. What ...
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Regex to select the last components of a file path

I have a regex sequence that will take the end of a file path and select it for me for example: ...
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Extraction of numbers from currency string

I have the following code; whereas currency and views are in reality many JSON objects from an SAP export, that I can not rely ...
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Regex to find addresses and phone numbers

I am trying to optimize my Java code where I am parsing an address field. Address fields have the format: ...
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Someone thinks poorly of my server log parser

I have just been informed that the following code written by me is extremely poor. I have absolutely no idea why. It is memory efficient, and looks clean to me. But still the feedback is very poor. I ...
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DateTime-like class implementation in modern C++

In modern C++, there is no class like datetime in the standard which can be used in the program. However, with additional of modules like ...
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Faults using mod_rewrite

I never really bothered using mod_rewrite to achieve SEO friendly names but I've always admired from a distance because I've never been good at regex. The below .htaccess file does work, but I'm ...
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Fast regex to extract strings before and after a time

I want to get text1 and text2 by splitting time format Text1 10:24:02 Text2 Of the ...