What is the best way of getting data from a search engine in a form that it can be parsed into addresses? The end goal is to geocode it. [more inside]
posted by a womble is an active kind of sloth on Aug 12, 2009 - 4 answers

Is there a simple way to convert an XML feed into a MYSQL database? [more inside]
posted by alse on Jan 21, 2008 - 6 answers

How do I parse a few lines from several hundred word documents into a spreadsheet? [more inside]
posted by gerg on Dec 2, 2007 - 7 answers

Flat file importing best practices? tips? ideas? [more inside]
posted by apark on Jan 2, 2007 - 20 answers

This 'bad' character is showing up as a box, and seems to invoke a new line. How can I find out what it really is? [more inside]
posted by CaptApollo on Oct 12, 2006 - 9 answers

Hi, I'm hosted with TextDrive who don't provide stats or log analysis for their customers. I do have access to the raw Apache log files, though, and would dearly love to parse them and get some meaningful stats and hopefully graphical charts out of them, ala AWStats, Analog or Webalizer. [more inside]
posted by dance on Oct 9, 2006 - 9 answers

I've been trying to find good resources on creating a bookmarklet for a web site i'm working on, and then parsing the passed url with PHP. [more inside]
posted by sourbrew on Mar 8, 2006 - 16 answers

Automation filter: I need a piece of software that will scan a folder of office documents and email them. [more inside]
posted by bigmusic on Oct 20, 2005 - 11 answers

Is there a way to represent algorithms in a form that in turn requires minimal or no knowldege of other algorithms? [more inside]
posted by Rothko on Sep 15, 2005 - 33 answers

I know there have been several RSS-related questions, but I couldn't find the answer to the specific scenario I'm looking for. I want to combine several of my published RSS feeds into a single combined RSS feed. [more inside]
posted by pzarquon on Mar 23, 2005 - 11 answers