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Re: Access a LEGO set DB with your phone!
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Sun, 17 Mar 2002 20:34:46 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.general, Dan Boger writes:
> > > Can you supply Guide data nicely formatted, or better, can the LUGNET guide
> > > respond to queries of a different form so that the desired data only is
> > > returned in speakable format?
> >
> > it's already available:
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> > http://guide.lugnet.com/set/list/bynumber.txt
So I've figured out what I want to happen with this data source. Now, if only
I were a programmer! I've spent the last eight hours trying to learn enough
perl to massage the data into a multidimensional array, but I think I'm giving
up, for the day at least. I can't find a reference, tutorial, or FAQ that
describes more than the basic concepts of References without completely
unintelligable techspeak. If anyone has a source, I'd love to read it.
Also, what tool should I be using the parse that web page? I can't seem to get
the right expression to make split break it down by the fields apparent in the
table. Am I missing something simple?
> So Chris, are you loading data in the background to generate static content
> (which is what I think) or are you parsing info from the guide in real time?
If I understand, the current LShop does the former. I actually just copied and
pasted the past four years and massaged the text into useful form. I'm trying
to make it the former.
Chris (Perhaps in over his head.)
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Access a LEGO set DB with your phone!
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| (...) ahhh, you said the magic word (perl) :) If you could explain to me exactly what you need, I'll give ya a script that will do it :) (...) you could use perl for that too, except that why load the server more then you need to? get the list file, (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | Re: Access a LEGO set DB with your phone!
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| (...) Chris, Save the attached Perl5 program to a file (parse.pl) and try this: cat bynumber.txt | perl parse.pl | more --Todd -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=...=-=-=-=-=- #!/usr/local/bin/perl5 -w use strict; while (<STDIN>) { last if m/^_/; } # Skip document (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Access a LEGO set DB with your phone!
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| (...) that is returned when you do queries of the form: (URL) Chris, are you loading data in the background to generate static content (which is what I think) or are you parsing info from the guide in real time? The latter might be an interesting (...) (22 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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