Tag: CSV

PHP fgetcsv() behavior on empty lines

The PHP documentation for fgetcsv() states that A blank line in a CSV file will be returned as an array comprising a single null field, and will not be treated as an error. Here's a quick demonstration of this behavior. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 6 months ago, on September 05, 2009, at 10:09 | No comments

Moved from Mnemosyne to FlashcardDB

When I was studying Spanish last year, I had to choose a flashcard program to memorize new words. At the time, I couldn't find any on-line program that just did the job and did it well. In a comment on my blog post from last year, however, I was pointed by Jeff to his amazing FlashcardDB. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on January 14, 2008, at 23:01 | 3 comments

Web scraping in Ruby: why I had to use scrAPI instead of WWW::Mechanize and Hpricot

Thursday evening: so, I had written myself a nice little script using Aaron Patterson's WWW::Mechanize and why's Hpricot to extract some data from a popular web-based airport directory. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on May 02, 2007, at 13:05 | 5 comments