Toonbots message board: Hmm...

gopher Wed Jul 9 00:22:34 2003 Re: Hmm... > How long have the forum archives been completely missing? It's just the index, and a while, apparently. You can get a sort of index by way of google, since it seems to have a good number of pages sorted, cached, and filed away. Or you could wait until my boredom levels reach critical mass and I just make my own index with the magic of wget and for loops. Hopefully those page numbers are sequential and consecutive.

gopher Wed Jul 9 00:26:29 2003 Re: Hmm... > Hopefully those page numbers are sequential and consecutive. Right.. so yeah, no. Michael is just going to have to deal with half a kajillion 404s, I guess.

mouse Wed Jul 9 16:42:35 2003 Re: Hmm... > Right.. so yeah, no. Michael is just going to have to deal with half a > kajillion 404s, I guess. serve him right - abandon us and go off and have fun somewhere .... hmpf. still, i'm impressed by your energy level -

gopher Wed Jul 9 17:21:36 2003 Re: Hmm... > still, i'm impressed by your energy level - I needed something to do between loads of laundry.

gopher Wed Jul 9 02:10:41 2003 third-party forum index > How long have the forum archives been completely missing? Here ya go: http://gophernet.org/board_archive.html Has all 544 posts I could find, including 12 inexplicably empty ones. Assuming that the numbers really do increase in a chronological manner, it should be sorted from newest to oldest. I went through the trouble of parsing all the dates to get the range, so I guess could have sorted off of that, but eh. whatever. This post has been brought to you by a hideous shell script and the letter Thnad.

Chris Wed Jul 9 14:56:41 2003 Re: third-party forum index Wow. You're completely insane. I mean this in a good way, of course. Bottle-cap medals all around!

gopher Wed Jul 9 17:25:38 2003 Re: third-party forum index > Wow. You're completely insane. Huh. And that's even before you saw the regex maze I used. Like for dates, at first I thought they would be easy to grab, since they seemed to be the only things that existed withing i tags. Except that they weren't, since Michael is a bastard and went back and italicized things by hand. So I flew into a horrible rage and spat out this: s/.* \(\([[:alpha:]]\{3\}[[:space:]]\{1,\}\)\{2\}[[:digit:]]\{1,\}[[:space:]]\{1,\}\([[:digit:]]\{2\}:\)\{2\}[[:digit:]]\{2\}[[:space:]]\{1,\}[[:digit:]]\{4,\}\).*/\1/p Which seems to do what I want. I still haven't figured out why I wrote a POSIX-only regex while using GNU specific extensions in everything else. Whatever. But yeah, I'm totally nuts. I should be stopped.

Chris Wed Jul 9 19:53:32 2003 Re: third-party forum index > Huh. And that's even before you saw the regex maze I used. He said the R-word! Defenestrate him! (I hate regexps. Does it show?)

gopher Thu Jul 10 11:37:38 2003 Re: regular expressions > He said the R-word! Defenestrate him! > (I hate regexps. Does it show?) Oh come on, what's wrong with regular expressions? How else are you going to words of a regular language using only a horrible, unreadable single line of terrible characters not meant for human eyes? Sure, regular expressions can be unreadable and confusing, and I probably am going to hell for that text adventure game that I wrote in sed a while back, but they can be your friend if you treat them well and use them properly.

Jenn Thu Jul 10 19:31:14 2003 Why I missed you guys! Awww! I haven't understood a single word of this thread! Thanks! I missed you guys so much!

gopherdave Thu Jul 10 21:23:09 2003 Re: Why I missed you guys! > Awww! I haven't understood a single word of this thread! Oh, it's really quite simple. A regular language is any language that can be matched by a deterministic finite automaton (a finite state machine where at any state, it's known what state is next for any character in the input alphabet), and a regular expression is just a shorthand for that DFA. Also, you shouldn't listen to a word I say since I passed theory by blind luck and the best curve ever.

mouse Fri Jul 11 14:45:03 2003 Re: Why I missed you guys! > Oh, it's really quite simple. A regular language is any language that can > be matched by a deterministic finite automaton (a finite state machine > where at any state, it's known what state is next for any character in the > input alphabet), and a regular expression is just a shorthand for that > DFA. well, that clears everything up.

gopher Fri Jul 11 15:02:44 2003 Re: Why I missed you guys! > well, that clears everything up. I would have drawn a picture, but I don't think ASCII art would survive the posting.