The action of retrieving data from a string
String parsing is the action of extracting or modifying data pieces from a string. For example, one might parse a string to remove all quotation marks or to find all items inside quotation marks.
Questions tagged [string-parsing]
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Parse date time from string of format ddMMMyyyy hhmm (with Month-Name)
I am kind of stuck with an issue where I am unable to to parse the date and time from a string, which I am reading from a text file. The string I am getting is in following format:
05SEP1998 2400
and I am trying to parse the string through the…
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Search string for numbers
I have a javascript chat bot where a person can type into an input box any question they like and hope to get an accurate answer. I can do this but I know I'm going about this all wrong because I don't know what position the number will appear in…
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Is there a tool for parsing a string to create a C# func?
I need to know if there is any library out there that will allow me to, given a certain string representing a mathematical function, say, x^2+x+1, (don't care about how the string format, any will work for me) generates a C# func that will represent…
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How to remove unbalanced/unpartnered double quotes (in Java)
I thought to share this relatively smart problem with everyone here.
I am trying to remove unbalanced/unpaired double-quotes from a string.
My work is in progress, I might be close to a solution. But, I didn't get a working solution yet. I am not…
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Documentum DQL: How can I get UTC time zone for Date columns to parse to .NET?
Documentum (DQL via DFC) always returns Date result columns as a string formatted like this:
Wed Oct 19 16:01:59 PDT 2011
...and the .NET DateTime.Parse function chokes on this — especially the PDT time zone (TZ henceforth) part of the strings —…
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Parsing number from string
How do I split selected value, seperate the number from text in jQuery?
Example:
myselect contains c4
Just get only the number 4.
$('select#myselect').selectToUISlider({
sliderOptions: {
stop: function(e,ui) {
var…
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Implementing T9 text prediction
I have a T9 dictionary in memory (trie/hash_map). The dictionary contains word-rating pairs, so when a word is picked from dictionary, its rating increments, and the word-rating pair goes up in the word list.
Let's say that there is a method to…
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Reading two inputs from the user
I would like to get the user enters two different values using only ONE statement of Console.ReadLine().
More specifically, instead of using two different variables declarations with two different ReadLine() method - I want to let the user enters…
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Extract Numeric and Special Characters Separately
I have column in a table with values stored as
Cost
499.00
£ 7.75
£ 7.75
250.00
£ 5.99
$ 6.05
Now, I need to store these values to another table like
Currency Cost
RS 499.00
£ 7.75
£ 7.75
RS 250.00
£…
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Using TO_NUMBER to parse numbers both in fixed notation and scientific notation
Using Oracle SQL, how can I convert string to a number when the string (a VARCHAR2 column) can contain either:
a number in fixed notation, such as -11.496606820938826
SELECT TO_NUMBER('-11.496606820938826', '999.999999999999999999',…
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Efficiently split a string in format "{ {}, {}, ...}"
I have a string in the following format.
string instance = "{112,This is the first day 23/12/2009},{132,This is the second day 24/12/2009}"
private void parsestring(string input)
{
string[] tokens = input.Split(','); // I thought this would…
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Simple (mostly) variable parser
In one of my projects, I need to be able to provide a very simple variable find-and-replace parser (mostly for use in paths). Variables are used primarily during startup and occasionally to access files (not the program's primary function, just…
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How can I parse a bytestring in Python 3?
Basically, I have two bytestrings in a single line like this:
b'\xe0\xa6\xb8\xe0\xa6\x96 - \xe0\xa6\xb6\xe0\xa6\x96\n'
This is a Unicode string that I'm importing from an online file using urllib, and I want to compare the individual bytestrings so…
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Python data scraping from string
I have lines of text containing multiple variables which correspond to a specific entry.
I have been trying to use regular expressions, such as the one below, with mixed success (lines are quite standardised but do contain typos and…
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Subset Columns based on partial matching of column names in the same data frame
I would like to understand how to subset multiple columns from same data frame by matching the first 5 letters of the column names with each other and if they are equal then subset it and store it in a new variable.
Here is a small explanation of my…
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