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3 answers
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Filter out strings that are short or that are outside the alphabet of a language

I wrote this function to remove from the array those words that are less than n values. More precisely, I updated my old function and added some functionality. Since I am a beginner in this ...
Andreas Hunter's user avatar
10 votes
1 answer
570 views

Highlight specific words in a sentence with diacritrics

I am searching for some improvements, particularly in the regex, in the way I highlight specific words in a string. I have keywords into my database stored without any diacritrics The user comes with ...
fazac's user avatar
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15 votes
1 answer
60k views

Getting data correctly from <span> tag with beautifulsoup and regex

I am scraping an online shop page, trying to get the price mentioned in that page. In the following block the price is mentioned: ...
avi's user avatar
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8 votes
1 answer
678 views

dir="auto" JavaScript shim for IE

Reason for script: dir="auto" is an attribute value from the HTML 5 spec with current poor support in IE and Opera browsers. The project I am working on only ...
mcarthurart's user avatar
4 votes
1 answer
921 views

Unicode parsing in PHP

Firstly, apologies if this is not the correct type of question for here, I had it on the stackoverflow but it was closed with a suggestion I post here. I’m in the process of converting from Latin 15 ...
kevins's user avatar
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3 votes
1 answer
2k views

Simplify regular expression? (Converting Unicode fractions to TeX)

Background I'm converting Unicode text to TeX for typesetting. In the input, I'm allowing simple fractions like ½ and ⅔ using single Unicode characters and complex fractions like ¹²³/₄₅₆ using ...
Todd Lehman's user avatar
7 votes
2 answers
1k views

N-gram generation

I have the following code, but it's too slow. How can I make it faster? ...
Ahmad's user avatar
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