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| 10-27-2011
| Leo Donofrio
Posted on 10/27/2011 8:58:05 PM PDT by Danae
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Oh yes... another installment hot off the internet press.
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posted on
10/27/2011 8:58:09 PM PDT
by
Danae
To: Danae
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posted on
10/27/2011 8:58:53 PM PDT
by
Danae
(Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
To: Danae
Regex with a good editor or Grep is a very powerful combination of tools. The problem with Regex is that use of that tool on a database requires extreme data structure.
I have used Regex and Grep to extract structure information from a 3,000 page cagalog. (small in comparison to this) That catalog was composed in Quark with a scripted input plug-in.
XML is another structure that lends itself to this type of editing.
The use as an excuse in this case is clearly total BS.
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posted on
10/27/2011 10:26:36 PM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
To: Texas Fossil
I completely agree. Regex is so brittle, that a .* instead of a \S is gonna break something bad enough to be noticed. bad enough that it would never make it past QA if it ever got that far. Not left in place for years...
More on that tomorrow!
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posted on
10/27/2011 10:31:36 PM PDT
by
Danae
(Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
To: Danae
Liars have this problem that cannot be solved.
The pieces never fit. hee hee hee
Chickens coming home to roost? We shall see.
FUBO!
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posted on
10/27/2011 10:43:03 PM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
To: Danae
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posted on
10/27/2011 11:52:08 PM PDT
by
Longbow
To: Texas Fossil
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posted on
10/28/2011 7:50:06 AM PDT
by
Danae
(Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
To: Danae
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posted on
10/28/2011 1:01:46 PM PDT
by
Danae
(Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
To: Texas Fossil
Regex is, quite simply, the wrong tool to use in most cases.
Like you said, if your data isn’t structured in a particular way it doesn’t work; but more than that it’s VERY easy to leave out some case when writing one. (I’ve had to do a few of those corrections, not fun; and in my experience if it’s even moderately complicated it’s going to change.)
I don’t really trust regex for anything more complicated than a) removal of certain characters, and b) *simple* transforms, like perhaps changing cases.
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posted on
10/28/2011 6:34:53 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: OneWingedShark
I used Regex with Grep to recover item number sequencing for a 3,000 page catalog. With it I could recover the item sequencing (after it was edited for print) from the actual .pdf that I sent to the printer. I also used it to extract the page number for each item in the print document.
In order to make that work I unzipped the .pdf with PDFtk and used an editor to remover the proportional spacing syntax for the numeral “1” followed by “1” (numeral one). Then I used keying code for page number and item number. It worked beautifully. But it only worked because the text data was imported into Quark with Xdata or Xtags. Like extruding the document from the data.
In some cases it will also work with XML for similar purposes.
Grep (which handles Regex) in the right hands is a very powerful tool for manipulating text data.
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posted on
10/28/2011 8:04:06 PM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
To: Texas Fossil
>Grep (which handles Regex) in the right hands is a very powerful tool for manipulating text data. I won't argue against that; I've heard some amazing things done with it... but in my own experience the regex in use is always breaking/broken. I'm slightly more inclined to learn
SNOBOL rather than gain a [working-]mastery of regex as 1) it will be another [programming] language to learn, and 2) it seems, just from an overview, to be more *useful* for pattern-matching. (And, as a plus, apparently it's been ported over to GNAT's Ada compiler as a compiler-specific package.)
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posted on
10/28/2011 8:18:12 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: Danae
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posted on
10/28/2011 8:33:39 PM PDT
by
Danae
(Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
To: OneWingedShark
I have used Regex with editors, Grep and Gnumeric (spreadsheet).
Regex syntax is not the same in all apps. Documentation is pretty sketchy on most apps concerning the use of Regex.
You never work on data that cannot be recovered.
It is amazing how fast Grep can strip patterns from text data. Huge file of text data in seconds or a few minutes.
I love command line apps for their efficiency. At one time I maintained about 80,000 images (& thumbnails). When the company I worked for then went to the web with their catalog I created all the images for the web from the print type images using Image Magick. I entered the command to create the images and simply went home for the evening. I do not know what time it finished the batch, but it was not even half the night.
As I added images I would batch process the new images and create the thumbnails using Image Magick. It would take only seconds to process several hundred images at a time. And the quality was great.
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posted on
10/28/2011 9:02:54 PM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
To: Las Vegas Ron; little jeremiah; MestaMachine; STARWISE; rxsid; butterdezillion; Fred Nerks; ...
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posted on
10/29/2011 9:17:59 AM PDT
by
Danae
(Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
To: Texas Fossil
Grep (which handles Regex) in the right hands is a very powerful tool for manipulating text data. For non-trivial text manipulation tasks, you are MUCH better off with something like PERL.
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posted on
10/29/2011 9:27:18 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
To: Danae
BTTT!
Can’t wait to check back and see what the usual suspects have to say.
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posted on
10/29/2011 9:28:41 AM PDT
by
Las Vegas Ron
(Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
To: Danae
The main tactic of leftist scum is lying.
They can never be counted on to tell the truth, EVER.
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posted on
10/29/2011 11:19:05 AM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
To: Las Vegas Ron
.....crickets....
(They’re in a huddle?)
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posted on
10/29/2011 11:23:35 AM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
To: little jeremiah; Las Vegas Ron
They are real quiet. I think their tactic now that the hinman play is done is to sit real quiet and hope this goes away. There really is no counter to this.
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posted on
10/29/2011 11:51:32 AM PDT
by
Danae
(Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
To: little jeremiah
Oh you can count on them telling just enough of a truth to turn it into a lie by omission.
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posted on
10/29/2011 11:54:25 AM PDT
by
Danae
(Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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