Parsing

iOS YouTube video ID from link

Just sharing a simple snippet for parsing video ID from YouTube links:

www.youtube.com/v/ZGNvt_L_cag
www.youtube.com?v=ZGNvt_L_cag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGNvt_L_cag&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGNvt_L_cag
youtu.be…

Parsing plain text to java object with Gson

When working with web service, we may get response in natural readable language…

Congrats Fatih Arslan this is great news, and great article.

Evading Temporary E-Mail Address Rejection in Account Registration

My journey about implementing an HCL parser in pure Go

One of my new side projects was about a scanner/parser family written in pure Go for the Hashicorp Configuration Language. I had two reasons for it, the first one was to have fun and learn the internals of Go’s own parser family (go…

How I got all tags and attributes from any XML file thanks to Ruby and REXML

Once I had to write a function to get all tags of any XML file, and their attributes.

This is tricky because most parsers need you to actually NAME the tag you’re looking…

Efficient XML Parsing with Java

For a language that likes XML so much, it was rather difficult to find an efficient and elegant way to parse it.

Writing maintainable Logstash filters

We can agree that Logstash is a powerful tool for log collection and processing. In fact, it’s design is so flexible, that it can be used for the processing of all sorts of data. With the various filter plugins it packs, one can easily extract structured data from…

Playing with Python’s Abstract Syntax Tree

I wanted to play with Python’s ast module, so I decided to write a little program that looks for function definitions in a file.

Parsing the file

Crawling FTP server with Scrapy

I was given a task of creating a parser (spider) with the Scrapy library and parsing FTP server with data. The parser had to find lists of files on the server and handle each file separately depending on the requirement to the parser.