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Word-definitions on the command-line

Posted 09-30-2017 at 02:31 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 07-08-2021 at 11:24 AM by Michael Uplawski (Script with xpath or css, wording and commas.)

Tags html, nokogiri, parse, word-definition

Updates:

27.4.2020 - An expression which is appended as request-parameter to an URL (or other URI) must be encoded. The original script assumes that this has been done beforehand. At the end of this blog-entry, I show a ruby-script which does the encoding.
The curl command should be used with the option -L or --location. I noticed that Larousse reacts to my requests but a browser is redirected (“301 Moved Permanently”) to an URL, where the request-parameters are modified to include a

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Michael Uplawski

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USB Receive and Rapid Parse, GPS Example

Posted 06-11-2013 at 08:17 AM by rtmistler

Tags gps, parse, usb serial

Introduction
This is more of a general programming example which can be applied to other systems, in addition to Linux.

This is a discussion of an application programming scenario where a GPS device is attached via a serial USB connection to the system. Challenges faced in this project include:

Detecting a USB Serial Resource on your System

Configuring and Controlling a USB Serial Resource

Processing Receive Data from the USB Serial Resource

De-Framing GPS Data

Parsing GPS Data

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rtmistler

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Posted in Linux Application Programming

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Ruby: configuration file parsing utility

Posted 04-18-2011 at 10:12 AM by catkin

Tags configuration, file, parse, parsing, ruby

Netsearching found three options for Ruby to parse configuration files:

YAML is powerful but I felt the the configuration file format was too complex for end-users. YAML example.
drks' ParseConfig was not powerful enough for my needs.
Hans' parse_config was also not powerful enough for my needs.

So I rolled my own and offer it here for community use. I was delaying publishing because it is not finished (there are TODOs in the code) but it works well enough and may never be finished so better...

catkin

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