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Dictionary.com script (finished/final)

2008-07-22T20:36:56-04:00

Presumably the website changed again. I'll have a look and post a fix. Might be a while, I don't have a shell to test from right now.

Statistics: Posted by rosc2112 — Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:36 pm

Dictionary.com script (finished/final)

2008-07-22T17:43:39-04:00

Erm...hi!

Bit of a problem with this script, when I type .dict blahblah, it just tells me that it's looking it up, and then it says 'no results found for 'blah' in any of the active dictionaries', I've tried specifying dictionaries, etc....Thoughts?

Statistics: Posted by anotheregglover — Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:43 pm

Dictionary.com script (finished/final)

2008-04-08T17:45:15-04:00

Code:

# above coderegsub -all -nocase {(?:|)} $dcsynon "\002" dcsynon# below coderegsub -all -nocase {.*?} $dcsynon {*control-code 002 is embedded here*&*control-code 002 is embedded here*} dcsynon

@rosc2122, I've got to wonder, why in all honesty you would use the below code when the above code serves the same purpose? Sometimes when your too used to overcoming obstacles with minimalistic coding in mind, you overlook the most simplistic and rational answer. Not to cause problems but surely even you can see that even the most talented, brilliant scripter would suffer to a degree if they don't constantly heed the advice from those they feel are less apt...right? What that means is even a genius can forget to use a curly brace at times (and shall we all once, or even a gazillion times) and you will get reminded by someone new to the language (a newb) that you simply forgot a brace somewhere. Because of their closeness with the early syntax of tcl, this catches their eye. To someone already adept in tcl, these simple rules can sometimes be easily overlooked and forgotten... These are reminders, not harrassment, don't take advice the wrong way.

While you may prefer linux, someone else may prefer windows. Now where we go from here should be always the same. But the way you script appears always biased for linux (purposely using code that breaks on windrop), and then you tout to others how they should fully install cygwin (pfft). To me I see this as a game for you to attract new users or zealots such as yourself to linux. All this in uneccessary to run a simple eggdrop with some simple tcl scripts, so give these windrop users a break, kthx..

Statistics: Posted by speechles — Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:45 pm

Dictionary.com script (finished/final)

2008-04-06T23:27:24-04:00

I'm not going to turn this into a thread of flames... But allow me to just make a couple of comments and corrections to your previous post.

Despite my better judgement for helping you, most likely your problem stemmed from you trying it with curly braces and not quotes.
It wasn't my problem, as I said, my script works without error for me. Other people can feel free to implement the fix you posted. When crafting this script, I used the regsub manpage provided with tcl, following the "accepted standard."

What you quoted me saying was infact in response to a direct quote of you acknowledging something not working for you (& with escaped codes). Thus, by definition, you had a "problem".

If you have a personal problem with offering me help (presumably because I "dared" to fix one of your scripts - and posted it according to the rules of the tcl archive with a name indicating it was a modified version, eg, script-version-rosc) you really don't need to.

Actually, according to the "rules of the land", you must seek permission from the original author first.

That's all I have to say.

Statistics: Posted by strikelight — Sun Apr 06, 2008 11:27 pm

Dictionary.com script (finished/final)

2008-04-06T19:48:41-04:00

Despite my better judgement for helping you, most likely your problem stemmed from you trying it with curly braces and not quotes.

It wasn't my problem, as I said, my script works without error for me. Other people can feel free to implement the fix you posted. When crafting this script, I used the regsub manpage provided with tcl, following the "accepted standard."

If you have a personal problem with offering me help (presumably because I "dared" to fix one of your scripts - and posted it according to the rules of the tcl archive with a name indicating it was a modified version, eg, script-version-rosc) you really don't need to.

In fact, given the apparent rising antagonism toward me here, I'll just take a vacation. I have enough bullshit in real life. 99% of the posts here are either faqs, users who can't be arsed to read documentation, or requests for spam, warez or mirc scripts, so my participation has naturally dwindled anyway.

Statistics: Posted by rosc2112 — Sun Apr 06, 2008 7:48 pm

Dictionary.com script (finished/final)

2008-04-06T19:45:30-04:00

Despite my better judgement for helping you, most likely your problem stemmed from you trying it with curly braces and not quotes.

Statistics: Posted by rosc2112 — Sun Apr 06, 2008 7:45 pm

Dictionary.com script (finished/final)

2008-04-06T17:11:34-04:00

>> You've embedded unescaped control-codes to handle the bold rather than the proper escape sequence \002. Synonyms and antonyms suffer from this.

Ahh ok.. As I recall, trying to use escape codes in a regsub using the & subs, doesn't work, hence having to use embedded code (which I generally dislike and avoid, however it didn't work for this case, iirc.)

Despite my better judgement for helping you, most likely your problem stemmed from you trying it with curly braces and not quotes.

Code:

regsub -all -nocase ".*?" $dcsynon "\002&\002" dcsynon

Should work correctly.

Statistics: Posted by strikelight — Sun Apr 06, 2008 5:11 pm

Dictionary.com script (finished/final)

2008-04-06T13:51:06-04:00

>> You've embedded unescaped control-codes to handle the bold rather than the proper escape sequence \002. Synonyms and antonyms suffer from this.

Ahh ok.. As I recall, trying to use escape codes in a regsub using the & subs, doesn't work, hence having to use embedded code (which I generally dislike and avoid, however it didn't work for this case, iirc.)

>> This directly stems from using *.tcl.txt to name the script, the browser will display these itself.

Actually, dandy.net has a badly configured webserver, their mime-types is not right, so if I did not use the .txt extension, your browser would get text anyway, but cooked/line-wrapped (their server sends a lot of stuff as text, regardless of extension. Getting them to fix it is an exercise in futility - it took months for them to even add .rar as a compressed archive type to their mime-types, despite many email complaints about the problem from me. Ever have a webserver send binary data as text? It's not pretty and you can't save it.) Browsers depend on the Content-Type string sent by the server, they don't generally rely on file extensions to determine anything. If Apache's default is content-type - ascii, you'll get cooked [edit] content, for every file extension not specifically defined in the sever's mime-types [edit2] which would mean even those embedded control codes (bolds) would be cooked. so if you did try saving it, it would be broken. So, yes, the simple solution is to either download the script by right-clicking the link, or download from the tcl archive.

>> Calling windrop inferior rather than investigate your own code is just silly.

I view tcl & eggdrop as primarily unix based, so any incompatibilities between the scripts I write for linux/tcl/eggdrop, and windrop, are beyond my control. Feel free to adapt the script to suit your platform. I don't think its fair to blame my script, which is written to the best standards of my abilities (which may not be saying much) for platform-specific problems on platforms I don't use or test on (nor for which tcl & eggdrop were designed.)

I always recommend windows users to install cygwin, if they want a genuinely unix-like environment (short of installing linux or bsd.) And that remains my solution to any platform-specifc problems such as this

Statistics: Posted by rosc2112 — Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:51 pm

Dictionary.com script (finished/final)

2008-04-06T01:43:38-04:00

rosc2112, it's this part:

Code:

regsub -all -nocase {.*?} $dcsynon {[*control-code 002 is here*]&[*control-code 002 is here*]} dcsynon

You've embedded unescaped control-codes to handle the bold rather than the proper escape sequence \002. Synonyms and antonyms suffer from this. Those who aren't saving the link directly, and instead copying and resaving in their editor of choice will most certainly have problems.. It's a simple fix.

The problem becomes noticeable in BeBoo's error message:

Code:

can't read "dcomdef": no such variable    while executing"regexp {class="sectionLabel">.+?Synonyms.*?(.*?)

} $dcomdef match dcsynon"    invoked from within"if {[regexp {class="sectionLabel">.+?Synonyms.*?(.*?)} $dcomdef match dcsynon]} {                        regsub -all -nocase {.*?} $dcsynon } dcsynon"

Notice particularly that part below with the stange brace all alone, this is where the embedded control-codes are causing conflict.

Edit: Appears this embedding happens in other spots as well, but it's the same exact 'regsub' concerning bold, except each is done on a different variable. When this control-character crosses platforms it causes unexpected problems. This directly stems from using *.tcl.txt to name the script, the browser will display these itself. Named as *.tcl the browser would only ask to save them or open them with another program, not display them. But....This would not even be an issue if people would stop embedding in the first place and properly generate their characters using escape sequences or similar means of creation. Calling windrop inferior rather than investigate your own code is just silly. Most windrop related script issues are usually: 1) the script author not following accepted standards or 2) dependencies on incompatible/missing modules (read this as the user now has to fully install cygwin to create it).

Statistics: Posted by speechles — Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:43 am

Dictionary.com script (finished/final)

2008-04-05T08:26:11-04:00

I'm assuming there's a version incompatibility between the version of tcl I'm using, and the version the people getting that "dcomdef" var error are using - something about the regexp, since obviously $dcomfef IS defined and the other regexp's don't throw any errors about it. I'm using tcl 8.4.11 and eggdrop 1.6.18.

Or perhaps its a unix-vs-windrop incompatibility (if you're using windrop and get that error, I can only suggest using a real unix system, or at the least, eggdrop & tcl compiled under cygwin.) I don't do windoze =)

Statistics: Posted by rosc2112 — Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:26 am

Dictionary.com script (finished/final)

2007-11-20T16:28:24-04:00

No clue. Read here to get proper debug output:

http://forum.egghelp.org/viewtopic.php?p=63899#63899

and

http://forum.egghelp.org/viewtopic.php?t=10215

Statistics: Posted by rosc2112 — Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:28 pm

Dictionary.com script (finished/final)

2007-11-20T14:31:39-04:00

I'm getting the following error when loading it:

Code:

can't read "dcomdef": no such variable    while executing"regexp {class="sectionLabel">.+?Synonyms.*?(.*?)

} $dcomdef match dcsynon"    invoked from within"if {[regexp {class="sectionLabel">.+?Synonyms.*?(.*?)} $dcomdef match dcsynon]} {                        regsub -all -nocase {.*?} $dcsynon } dcsynon"

Any ideas?

Statistics: Posted by BeBoo — Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:31 pm

Dictionary.com script (finished/final)

2006-12-19T02:05:42-04:00

The binary codes are unicode chars (EN DASH and EM DASH), and unfortunately I'm not able to cut/paste them into the string map to translate them.. I also tried using the hex code for them, but that don't work for my platform either. Curiously, when I save the page in Mozilla, I get this char:

â

because the first part of the hex for 'EN DASH' is 0xE2 (the full hex code for it is 0xE2 0x80 0x93 (e28093))

If anyone has a clue about how to add these pesky unicode chars into string map, I'd appreciate a hint (I'm not even able to reproduce the chars using bash's \x codes, I don't know what the octals for the chars are so I didn't try that..)

Here's info about the chars:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode ... /index.htm
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode ... /index.htm

Needless to say, dictionary.com is turning into a real pain in the rump cos they keep changing these silly little things (they were originally using the html codes for dash..)

Statistics: Posted by rosc2112 — Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:05 am

Dictionary.com script (finished/final)

2006-12-18T23:46:11-04:00

This is how I see it, if this is how it's suppose to run thats fine.. and thanks for all these new scripts you've been making

Code:

It shows this  and no spaces by numbers while it lists.. Dictionary.com Unabridged: Results for 'chat' - [pronunciation key: chat ] verb (used without object) 1.to converse in a familiar or informal manner. noun 2.informal conversation: We had a pleasant chat. 3.any of several small Old World thrushes, esp. of the genus Saxicola, having a chattering cry. 4.yellow-breasted chat. Verb phrase Output limit reached [6 lines max] Origin: 140050; late ME; short for chatter Synonyms: 1, 2. talk, chitchat, gossip, visit. [End Dictionary.com Unabridged - 'chat']

Statistics: Posted by cache — Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:46 pm

Dictionary.com script (finished/final)

2006-12-18T23:06:25-04:00

Which word, and what commandline options did you look up? I just checked and don't see any changes in the html being used. And yes, it will normally list definitions 1 at a time for the default dictionary.

Statistics: Posted by rosc2112 — Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:06 pm