Questions tagged [fileparsing]

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File formats for Stars! by Mare Crisium

There is an old strategy came called Stars! by Mare Crisium. I would like to write some AI to play this game, but I don't get much fun out of trying to decipher file formats. Does anyone know the format of the X and H files that are used for turns? …
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In Ruby- Parsing Directory and reading first row of the file

Below is the piece of code that is supposed read the directory and for each file entry prints the first row of the file. The issue is x is not visible so file is not being parsed. Dir.foreach("C:/fileload/src") do |file_name| x = file_name puts…
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How to Build a dictionary from a text file in Python

I have a text file with entries that look like this : JohnDoe Assignment 9 Reading: NO header: NO HW: NO Solutions: 0 show: NO Journals: NO free: NO Finished: NO Quiz: 0 Done Assignment 3 E-book: NO HW: NO Readings: NO…
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File Parsing in C#

I am building a game in Visual Studio 2008 and in order to build levels, i will have two types of files (more than that actually but these two are the only ones important to my question) i need to parse. One will dictate the contents of a level and…
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Best (quickest) way to parse and modify a file

Recently I have been using alot of text files (csv) with 10-60k lines, something like this id1,id2 id3,id1 id81,id13 ... And most of the times, I need to extract this informaton in form of an array: id1,id2,id3,id1,id81,id13 Or at times,…
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How to parse a Really Big Incorrectly Saved JSON file to fix it

I was working across a big dataset of approximately a million items and took a dump from a database using streams. However, I mistakenly missed the opening and closing box brackets to indicate a json array and just pushed the objects without it. Now…
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Parse .msg outlook file with flutter/dart

I need help running this python code in a windows flutter app import win32com.client outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application").GetNamespace("MAPI") msg = outlook.OpenSharedItem(r"C:\test_msg.msg") using the win32 package, as I can't…
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powershell cant get json key / value

Hello I have a json file below: { "supports": {}, "dependencies": { "AST.NxTestware.main": "1.1.0", "otherPackagenName": "7.7.7" }, "frameworks": { ".NETPortable,Version=v4.5,Profile=Profile78": {} } } and I am trying to write…
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how to seperate a csv file using commas if it has null values and we need data corresponding to upper column?

My code is BufferedReader fileReader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(strFileName)); while ((strLine = fileReader.readLine()) != null) { // [2011.06.28] based on OAP's mail, now ignore "quotations" …
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Get values from variable contents using PowerShell for code parsing

I have parsed the content of an API call to a variable $a.(Content below) and I would like to only parse out the list of packages which are under "dependencies". Is there are way to filter for only the dependencies using powershell?. { "name":…
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Read a file in python from one particular word to another and put it in a list

So let's say i'm reading a txt file in Python which is something like this: .. Keywords- key1; key2, key3; key4 Abstract .. .. Now i want to parse the file until i find the word "Keywords", and then put all the keywords into a list, so the list…
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Parse only selected records from empty-line separated file

I have a file with the following structure: SE|text|Baz SE|entity|Bla SE|relation|Bla SE|relation|Foo SE|text|Bla SE|entity|Foo SE|text|Zoo SE|relation|Bla SE|relation|Baz Records (i.e., blocks) are separated by an empty line. Each line in a…
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How I can skip a blank line in an input file when using strtok?

I want to pass lines of a file using strtok; the values are comma separated. However, strtok also reads blank lines which only contain spaces. Isn't it suppose to return a null pointer in such a situation? How can I ignore such a line? I tried to…
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How to use the biblib parser with a bibtex file stored in a pyhon variable?

I have a bibtex file that I get from the frontend and I'm trying to parse this file with biblib (a python library to parse bibtex files). Because I get the file from the frontend its not stored in a file on my computer. The file gets passed through…
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Effective way to split character from lines of files in java 8

I am looking for effective way to split string/char from huge files line by line. The split pattern is same for all line. Goal is to read line by line and parse the line then save in objects. For ex, line in file is This is a sample for line 1. Here…
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