Comments for SZC's Agglomeration

Comment on programmingFonts() by Mark

Mark — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:49:44 +0000

Thanks for the advice about font use people. It would be much easier to select a good font, if browsers display them exactly too.

Comment on force browser to download a file by David Keaveny

David Keaveny — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:01:44 +0000

Isn’t it better to leave the mime type as it should be, and set the content-disposition?

Content-Type: text/comma-separated-values
Content-Disposition: inline; filename=openinexcel.csv

IIRC if you set the Content-Disposition to attachment, rather than inline, it’ll bring up the download prompt.

Comment on regular expressions (a.k.a. regEx) tutorial #1 by Off Ramz

Off Ramz — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:55:24 +0000

Thanx man. One of the few tutorials about regex that I have really understood.

Comment on programmingFonts() by How to Get Six Pack Fast

How to Get Six Pack Fast — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:52:17 +0000

I can tell that this is not the first time you mention the topic. Why have you decided to write about it again?

Comment on date validation regular expression (improved formula catering for leap years and correct days in month) by rc

rc — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:55:12 +0000

Some of the tests I’ve done:
02/31/2008 is NOT valid
11/3/2009 is NOT valid
4/23/1976 is NOT valid
8/32/1974 is NOT valid
1/1/1997 is valid
10/31/2018 is NOT valid

The lines in bold indicate your regex is not correct as those two dates are valid ones.

Comment on Python :: Mapping a string to a dictionary by Mohammed Berdai

Mohammed Berdai — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:28:19 +0000

Interesting! I’m still a Python newbie and was questioning the utility of map()
It’s clear to me now

Comment on Python :: Mapping a string to a dictionary by Marlon Grech

Marlon Grech — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:07:37 +0000

nice
still it’s dirty… it’s python joking

Comment on date validation regular expression (improved formula catering for leap years and correct days in month) by sunwatersnow

sunwatersnow — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:27:20 +0000

I TESTED YOU YOUR STRING IN 5 REXEX APPLICATION
THE BUG IN YOU STRING IS
IT DOES NOT WORK

Comment on date validation regular expression (improved formula catering for leap years and correct days in month) by sunwatersnow

sunwatersnow — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:18:31 +0000

Can you simply the code and show just how to validate the date part and not the time, and then throughly explain what is goin on.
And when you do could you email me the solution or posting at
steve_44@inbox.com

Comment on date validation regular expression (improved formula catering for leap years and correct days in month) by Stefan Camilleri

Stefan Camilleri — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:02:51 +0000

@James

You’re welcome

Comment on date validation regular expression (improved formula catering for leap years and correct days in month) by James

James — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:01:00 +0000

this is excellent. Thanks for sharing.

Comment on regular expressions (a.k.a. regEx) tutorial #1 by Stefan Camilleri

Stefan Camilleri — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:44:35 +0000

@Joe

This will work specifically for the string you propose:

Color ([^ ]+) Flavor ([^ ]+) Topping “(.+)” Size ([^ ]+)

A more dynamic solution is this:

(?:[^ ]+) +((?:(?:”.+”)|(?:[^ ]))+) ?

Repeated for as many tuples as you need. It will pick up always the second value, catering also for inverts.

i.e. Color Blue would pick up Blue and Color “Light Blue” would pick up “Light Blue”

Hope it helps

Comment on regular expressions (a.k.a. regEx) tutorial #1 by Joe

Joe — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:55:06 +0000

how wud you parse the following into pairs with regex?

Color Blue Flavor Vanilla Topping “Chocolate Sprinkles” Size Small

where the result would be
Color=Blue
Flavor=Vanilla
Topping=Chocolate Sprinles
Size=Small

([\"])[^\"]*\\1|[^ ]+([^ ]*) does not seems to work perfectly

Comment on date validation regular expression (improved formula catering for leap years and correct days in month) by Stefan Camilleri

Stefan Camilleri — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:34:20 +0000

@Suki
Thank you for that… I’ll check it out Most leap years should work, that must’ve slipped.

Comment on date validation regular expression (improved formula catering for leap years and correct days in month) by Suki

Suki — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:30:32 +0000

Leap Year dates don’t seem to work. eg. 29/02/2000 comes back as invalid