#text parsing

[ourwitching]

Grok is a way to match a text line against a regular expression, map specific parts of the...

[ourwitching]

Grok is a way to match a text line against a regular expression, map specific parts of the...

[fmprogurus]

Parsing Data - FileMaker vs Excel

Parsing Data – FileMaker vs Excel

A couple of short, followup videos from Michael Rocharde comparing (and contrasting) the differences between FileMaker and Excel. This time around, parsing data is highlighted: No, parsing is not a spelling mistake; it’s a term used to describe separating data into different elements. In this short video, we’re going to separate out a single address field, into separate address, city, state and…

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Understanding Web I/O

A question that seems to be popping up with increased urgency is how to incorporate LabVIEW into an environment that is largely web-based. As you would expect, in a technology that is developing as fast as the web, it can be hard to keep track of where things are right now. In fact at least one major tech publisher (O’Reilly Media) is diving full throttle into electronic publishing because with…

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[sux-city]

Sometimes Something is NOT Better Than Nothing

Every once in a while when someone sends me an email with a time or date in it, Gmail provides a helpful little popup that lets me add the whatever-it-is straight to my calendar.

Unfortunately it's a little hit or miss. In fact, rather bizarrely, it's really good at finding random times or dates strewn haphazardly around in an email, but when someone bothers to put together a nicely formatted date and time - say like this: Wednesday, 7/23, 3 PM-4:30 PM - Google can't seem to figure out that might be something I want to add to my calendar. I'm probably doing some bad estimation here, but I'd think that that properly formatted shit is way more likely to actually be a calenderable thing. (Calendarable - is that a word? Whatever, it is now.) The old idiom something is better than nothing doesn't apply to stuff like this. The fact that it works sometimes and not others just creates frustration when it doesn't and the user is expecting it to. If it never did it, that'd be better all around. For some people it might be annoying, but they'd quickly learn not to expect it; this is not a good user experience for them, but it's certainly a better user experience than what we've got now. For others... they may be very used to manually jotting down dates and might never miss the feature at all if it wasn't there.

By the by, Remember the Milk probably has one of the better time/date free text parsers I've ever used. It can handle most anything and it was built by a tiny little team. If they can do it, Google can do it.

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