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Re: Perl-based bulk set IDer...
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Date: 
Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:10:35 GMT
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In article <FF7J5H.AI1@lugnet.com>, "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
Say, did you know about the "output=plain" option?  For example,
   http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=6848&output=plain

Whoa!  That's much easier than the html pseudo-
parser I'd written to "canonicalize" my personal
set database.

If you plan to run queries frequently, I'd suggest downloading local copies
of the tab-delimited listings at <http://www.lugnet.com/pause/lists.html> and
then simply looking the info up from there rather than making across-the-net
HTML queries on-the-fly.

Even better.  Will it be eventually tied in
with parts inventories, too (I hope I hope)?

Also - how frequently are the set lists updated?

-Tim

--
Tim and/or Shelley Rueger - rueger "at" io.com
WWW page: http://www.io.com/~rueger/



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(...) Yea (...) After a half hour has elapsed since the last changepoint. So, on the cosmic scale, fairly instantaneously. --Todd (25 years ago, 23-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) Say, did you know about the "output=plain" option? For example, (URL) a simpler output mode which makes parsing easier, and it's much less bandwidth (about 1/10 the page size). Actually, rather than parsing, it was really created for the (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)

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