OpenEuphoria

2. RE: my dilemma -- hundreds of record types

• Posted by Kat <kat at kogeijin.com> Nov 15, 2002
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• Last edited Nov 16, 2002

On 15 Nov 2002, at 23:17, Bernie Ryan wrote:

> 
> 
> irv at take.maxleft.com wrote:
> > One way would be to find the desired tag, then read lines until you hit 
> > the 
> > next < 
> > Of course, this won't work if there are < 's imbedded in the data field.
> > 
> 
> Irv:
> 
>    How about keeping a sequence list of tags.
>    constant tags = {<NAME>,<STATE>,..etc}
>    Then search for a line for first '<'
>    Then build another sequence of characters until see '>' or EOL.
>    if we see the EOL then process this line and start over again.
>    if we see '>' then you are formed sequence to find if it
>    exists in the tags sequence, if it does then its sequence
>    offset position could also be made to tell us how to process
>    the that tag line. if no tag is found then just process the
>    line as it belongs to the prior tag.   

But it won't. The lines are the fields of the "\n"-terminated "strings" of the 
database. This is why i used gets(), it breaks the file into the fields 
automagically for us, then anything in each field up to the first ">" is the tag
for that field.

Your logic also fails when processing tags in webpages containing javascript. 
And new tags cannot be added willy-nilly without changing the code to 
process it.

Kat