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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ini file parser in C++
Please review my ini file parser (and potentially some general config file formats).
The data structure used is a section, see below. Does that seem a good approach?
I was wondering about the name. ...
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Enum for converting between field naming conventions
Based on this question and this answer, I decided to try the enum approach to do some more conversions I need in my application. This time I required to convert between the different field naming ...
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How to parse a POSIX command line pipeline in C
I've refactored this function that was 200+ rows. Now it is "only" 161 rows and I can do further refactoring now that I have a strategy. I fixed all the errors and memory leaks and measured with ...
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Parsing a string with named sections and a key-value pair on each line
I have a response String as shown below which I need to parse it and store it my class. Format is shown below:
task name followed by this dotted line ...
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FIRST and FOLLOW sets calculator in Haskell
I found myself wanting to brush up on some notions about parsers and grammars and, at the same time, to exercise my Haskell - I am a Haskell newbie; moreover, I haven't touched the language at all in ...
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Shell command-line interpreter with pipeline parsing
Like many others I've been writing a shell command-line interpreter that can do a pretty decent pipeline parsing, first it splits the command at pipeline char (|), then it splits the substring at ...
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Pen-and-Paper Dice Roller Tool
A friend asked me to write a pen-and-paper dice roller, so I put this together. I'm still pretty new to Java Swing, so I was hoping I could have some advice on how I handled the layouts and ...
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PEG parser generator
I wrote a Python PEG parser generator that takes a grammar as a string, and returns a parser. The parser can parse its own syntax, and is feature complete with the original PEG paper, with some ...
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Data type detection for a CSV file parser
I am building a CSV file parser, and in order to get the appropriate Object to represent different data types found on the parsed files, I wrote the following function:
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Delimited file parser
This is some code I've cobbled together that reads a delimited file. If the user is able to tell us some stuff about the file, it uses the supplied information. Otherwise, it tries to work stuff out ...
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Parsing a string containing arithmetic operations in prefix notation
This is a piece from the complete program.
What it does is parses mathematical expressions of the form (+(*3,x),5) to 3*x + 5 ...
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recursive descent parser
Here is a non-predictive recursive descent parser I wrote for the following grammar:
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run command pipeline in C
This code parses and tokenizes my shell language command interpreter. I will try and make it 2 functions, one that is the tokenizer and the other that is the rest of the function. Can you find ...
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Parsing in between of brackets
I do parsing of the string in order to find wrapped sub-string inside brackets of the first level. a+(b+(d-g))+g+d, in this case I will need to separate ...
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Parsing 4 Million Filenames
This is the next step in my project to query Companies House records. The first step, retrieving and validating the company numbers to be targeted, was covered here and I will include that code at the ...
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Tokenizing a shell command
I want to handle input like the following
ls -al | awk '{print $1}'
Now to parse it I couldn't tokenize at whitespace because of the quotations and I had to make ...
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Extracting data from a string
I created a method that takes a string value with a fixed length of 9 characters and extracts three values, house (4 characters), ...
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Parsing US addresses without regular expression for performance
Looking for some constructive feedback on Parsing an Address without using Regular Expression in C# for performance purposes.
My aim is to clean the data and to separate it into its respective ...
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Parsing .PLY file using F#
I'm fairly new to F# and have written a program to parse PLY files - this is however done in an imperative way with mutable values and as far as I know that should be avoided in functional languages.
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Parse HTML to modify it
I'm using the following code to parse html, This code is working but since I'm new to JavaScript and working in alone project I would appreciate if you can give me some tips and feedback how can I ...
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tcl script to parse C++ source code for type identifiers
Experimenting with vera++ to validate some C++ source files.
https://bitbucket.org/verateam/vera/wiki/Home
vera++ is expandable by providing your own rules in tcl. To interface with the vera++ parser ...
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Parsing an address without regex [closed]
I am looking to improve on this code as it is not fully working properly yet. This address parse separates street number, street name, street type, apartment name and number from a string of a given ...
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Loading data from a text file into the database as fast as possible
I'm building a Django (1.8.12) application that parses a .bc3 file (Standard Interchange Format for Databases of Construction and Real State) and loads all the data into the database (PostgreSQL ...
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Parsing speech out of text
I'm working on an experiment to parse speech out of an emote in a text roleplaying game (MUD) so that if you can't hear it correctly, or if it's in a different language, you won't understand it. This ...
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Parsing a string as fast as possible that is using comma delimiters
I have made a simple static parser for a bigger program. This parser takes a string that has comma deliminators and I need to separate the strings in to a vector for handling in a different section of ...
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Read group of keywords from file, modify value, store new group to variable
I would like to use the following routine in my submission script for GAMESS calculations. I am not entirely sure if this is the optimum way to go.
This function would need one of the messaging ...
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Extend API of complex source-code parsing CPAN module
I am working on a source line parser using PPI. After working a while, I realized that
it would be nice if the PPI API had ...
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Simplified error handling when reading from stdin and parsing to a type
I've recently started learning Rust, and I've managed to whip up this function, which reads and parses a thing from stdin. I don't like it though, and I feel it ...
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`read` re-implemented for Int's
I have written a safe read function for haskell (for education!). I think this is fairly idiomatic haskell code, but I'd like to know for sure. If you see anything else that could be improved, please ...
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Getting the program's first argument as a number
I want to get the first argument as a number, if there is any. This does not feel quite right, but I don't know yet what the Rust way would be.
I'm not searching for a args-framework or something, I ...
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Java class that parses Shoutcast stats XML
I have written a Java class that parses Shoutcast 2 stats XML. It uses JDOM to parse the XML. I have only basic knowledge of Java and I wrote this class in about 3 hours. It works, but I don't know if ...
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Prolog parser written in Haskell
I am writing a very simple Prolog intepreter in Haskell. It's a class assignment and I really want to do it right.
I was able to (quite quickly) write a parser for the language. Today I borrowed a ...
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Converting an SVG polygon path from relative to absolute coordinates
This question was moved from StackOverflow as suggested by some users.
I developed a function that aims to (should) provide a simple and effective method to transform a polygon ...
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Memory efficient Log Parser
I wrote this together for a test I'm doing that parses the Heroku access log. What I'm mainly interested is if this code follow common best practices and if there are any improvements I can make in ...
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Parsing two digits
This parses two digits and returns the rest of the string.
Input:
"20asg"
Output:
{ number: 20, left: "asg" }
Input:
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Reading file into structure
At the time I'm trying to read a quite big file into a C program for later user. The file size is in the range of 800 megabytes containing around 20 million lines of data of the following format:
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Putting a matrix from a text file into a list
I'm trying to read a text file with matrix and put it in a list, but I am using two loops here and I want my function to be faster.
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Parsing JSON using jsoncpp
I left questions in the comments strategically, since I think it's easier to answer questions this way.
Basically what my small class does is abstracts away functionality that was originally in a ...
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Parsing JSON in one go using state machine solution
I need to parse a simple JSON string (flat JSON, no hierarchy) for keys and values, and there is a system constraint that I cannot use any built-in JSON library and can only read a string once due to ...
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Excel-to-JSON parser
I just wanted to build a simple converter from an XLS Excel file to JSON. I have predefined JSON format. All fields except of two - are just simple mapping from Excel to JSON. The two fields have a ...
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Using arrays to read in file, append it with parsed program output and overwrite original
Yesterday a friend of mine asked on U&L: How to optimize 'grep'-and-save?
I will summarise shortly. The output of the torque pbs queueing system tool qstat ...
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Regular expression matching with string slice in Go
I have a slice of strings, and within each string contains multiple key=value formatted messages. I want to pull all the keys out of the strings so I can collect ...
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Parsing a complex number using regular expressions
Requirements were to create a constructor for a complex number, that receives a string. For example: \$3+5i\$. The regex extracts positive or negative numbers from the string with optional decimal.
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Email text parser
I am writing a parser to parse out the fields of an email message in the following format (note that I expect that the "To:" field could contain multiple lines, same with the "Subject:" field.
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Finding a delimiting character in a text file
I am writing a program that is capable of reading a matrix supplied from a text file. One intended feature of this program is that it should be capable of detecting various delimiters in the text ...
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Configuring fields to be extracted by a data processor
I solved this problem using closures with Perl and I wonder if/how I could/should have done it differently?
Background:
User creates config file describing properties of some source data file that ...
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Expression parser using Shunting-yard algorithm
I've been working on a expression parser which will be part of another project (some sort of DSL). This parser basically uses the Shunting-yard algorithm, except for the case of parenthesis: here it ...
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Base converting with strings from bases 1 to 36 to bases 1 to 36
I'm writing a fastest-code challenge over at PPCG relating to base conversion of bases 1 to 36, and as a part of the process for writing the competition, I decided to write my own program for it. This ...
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XML parser using PHP
It is just one of the files. I have also tried to write some tests using PHPUnit. Please give me some suggestions to improve my coding-writing skills.
The below is the test file for the above file:
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