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Re: Re: News alerts using the BBC's news ticker data file

by bfdi533 (Friar)
on Apr 01, 2003 at 18:06 UTC ( [id://247296]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


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in thread News alerts using the BBC's news ticker data file

Tried this out yesterday and thought it was the bomb! Great job.
But I tried it out today and found that it returned nothing but the categories. Checking the grammar I found that the DATE specification failes on dates like "1 April" as it is only a 1-digit day, rather than as expected in the grammar as "01 April".
If the DATE is changed to "DATE: /0-9+ A-Za-z+ 0-9{4}/" then it works again.

Ed
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Re: Re: Re: News alerts using the BBC's news ticker data file
by dbush (Deacon) on Apr 02, 2003 at 14:07 UTC

    Many thanks bfdi533. Just goes to show how rusty my grammar writing skills were/are. I've made the correction to the original node.

    Regards,
    Dom.

    PS: You may be wondering where your [ and ] characters have gone and why have strange hyperlinks appeared? The answer is that those characters are used to create links within the site. This link, although outdated, has more information.

      Yes, I was wondering about that. Thanks for the link; I now know the "error of my ways" in that last posting.

      BTW, I think your grammar solution with [0-9]{1,2} is much more elegant than my [0-9]+.

      Ed

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