Help me find this data analysis tool, so I can process lots of cool data. [more inside]
posted by Homeboy Trouble on Sep 5, 2012 - 4 answers

Matlab textparsing filter: So for a project, I am working with over one hundred years of hourly data collected for water levels. I have all of this collected in a giant, ~35 Mb text file. Toward the last decade or so, there are double entries for water level thanks to semidiurnal tide measurement upgrades, and so there is an irregular number of columns that isn't easy to work with the usual data import strategies. I need your help, citizens of Metafilter, so that I can successfully rig the Matlab textscan command (or something else) to read in this formatted data, and make accommodations for empty value strings! More inside. [more inside]
posted by oceanjesse on Apr 16, 2012 - 13 answers

How can I parse several largish (~6mb) text documents to produce a common index of keywords and phrases? I need something that will recognize phrases as well as key words, kind of like Amazon's Statistically Improbable Phrases. [more inside]
posted by cross_impact on Jan 15, 2010 - 5 answers

Should-be-simple Linux timestamped file parsing question. [more inside]
posted by yellowbkpk on Mar 9, 2008 - 7 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

ParseFilter: I have a CSV file full of leads I need to parse into a more, er, concise format. What would the hive mind recommend? [more inside]
posted by cdmwebs on Nov 3, 2007 - 23 answers

RSS to HTML: Why can't my PHP file open remote RSS files? [more inside]
posted by o2b on Jan 3, 2006 - 7 answers

Lexical analysis! What are some good resources for a beginner? [more inside]
posted by cortex on Nov 30, 2005 - 14 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

Can anyone suggest good PHP books or existing scripts that can help me successfully parse RSS 1.0, 2.0 and Atom 0.3 feeds, then save them to a MySQL database? [more inside]
posted by jeanmari on Mar 28, 2005 - 3 answers

A friend wants to include headlines from my website on his site. Is there a simple way for him to publish headlines as links using my RSS feed, preferably without the branding of a third party service? [more inside]
posted by neuroshred on Feb 17, 2005 - 8 answers

htaccess, SSI, and PHP parsing. Can one file get both php and ssi parsing? if yes, how, if not, help! [*]
posted by gramcracker on Aug 11, 2004 - 10 answers