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Parse incoming mail in Thunderbird?
I need to parse the title of incoming mails and do some simple checks like "does it include this word/number".
I'm familiar with AutoHotkey, batch, PHP...
Any ideas? I can't seem to find a plugin ...
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How can I parse data from inside a tag with Applescript?
How can I parse data from inside a tag with Applescript? I know Applescript has the words 3 thru -2 of myTextVariable syntax - but how would I use it to be sure I am just getting This is my text from ...
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Copy files from m3u to destination
I have a playlist, m3u extended, formated like:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:213,2 Tåst - (foo bar)
/home/www/Music/Test/test 123 - test.mp3
My problem is, that it seems the line-break is encoded as '\n\r' ...
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How can I parse an XML file from the command line (for GeekTool)?
I'd like to find a Terminal command that can pull the file at http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=SOMEUSERNAME&count=1 and parse it to find a user's Twitter status. ...
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Trying to use XML::Parser and XML::XPath, where do I type the command?
Here's the tutorial I am using, which I have been assured is of high quality by Google: http://www.kitebird.com/articles/mysql-xml.html#TOC_5
Now, what I am trying to do is run some test scripts ...
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lines identical except for their first word, put the first word in a variable
I have file(sudoers) in which lines can be identical except for the first word in them (different users can execute the same set of commands). I am able to extract such a line using the command:
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“Machine-readable” list of states in native name
I'm searching for a list (xml,json,... preferred) which contains all sovereign states (lets define them as the members of the UN only) in their native name(s).
ISO-Code for state and language are ...
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Securing data on the web [closed]
I maintain a website that shows a google maps map with a bunch of annotations. These annotations are fetched using JQuery Ajax from a PHP page which in its turn returns an XML list with the data.
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How can I open a subset of a large (35MB) .xlsx file?
I have Ubuntu 10.04 running on a Dell Optiplex with 4GB of memory and two 3.16GHz processors.
I received a 35MB spreadsheet. It opened in Gnumeric after 5 minutes with errors, and it hasn't opened ...
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Extract data from PDF document to CSV
I would like to convert a stack of financial documents, identically formated, into a CSV file.
Here is an example:
I have a program to do the OCR (optical character recognition) so that is not the ...
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Last email exchanged in Outlook
I use outlook for all communications with my friends; I want to find out when I last exchanged email from a friend. Normally the emails that I get from my friends are moved to folders in outlook.
Is ...
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Batch convert lit -> txt [convert from one text format to another in a batch]
Is there a tool to BATCH! convert a folder of lit files to a different, plain-text would be the best choice, format?
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How to use grep to match domain names?
I have a list of urls like:
hxxp://url.com/subpage.html
hxxp://www.url2.com/index.php
hxxp://subdomain.url3.com/somepage.php
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How can I use grep to match the domain names only?
All the urls ...
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Import json data into Excel
I have a text file in json format and want to read it into Excel. A very simplified example of the json file has the following structure:
{ [
{ 'a': 10, 'b': 20 },
{ 'a': 20, 'b': 22 },
{ 'a': ...
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Retrieving a registry variable in a batch script
I wish to write a batch script (windows XP) that extracts certain installation paths from the registry.
How would one go about writing such a script?
I have written the following - I am (as you ...
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How Do I Parse a String?
I am new to bash, and I am creating a script that loops through the files in a directory and based on part of the filename, does something with the file, so far I have this:
#!/bin/bash
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Shell scripting: Way to parse parameters from command line
myscript [-a a-arg] [-c c-arg] [-b] [-e] somedirectory
Given that I want my shell script be invoked at the command line using the above parameters - where [these brackets] denote that they are ...
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automatic manipulation of email messages
Does it exist any web service that "filters" any email message allowing to change the subject or the content on a regexp basis and then forward it to my webmail address?
For example: I want to append ...
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Capturing and parsing xterm cut buffer in emacs
I'd like to make an indirect control for Emacs (in Ubuntu Linux) so that I can swipe some text in an xterm with the cursor, cutting it into the X cut buffer, then run a macro in Emacs to parse the ...
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I installed and ran Heritrix Web Crawler. It stored data in .arc.gz files
If you have used Heritrix Web Crawler, I'd really appreciate your help.
3 questions:
An arc file probably contains source codes of MANY pages in there. How do I figure out which is which?
How do I ...
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Automatic parsing of citation text in academic references
Is there any software (or pseudo-code) which can automatically scan a piece of text (either pasted into the tool, or read from a .doc/.pdf) and identify citation data using standard formats? The data ...