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April 2006 - Posts

Regular Expression, Hell or paradise?!
18 April 06 07:40 PM | Frederick.Chapleau | with no comments

As almost all developpers I saw, several years ago, the usage of regular expression, but I didn't notice how they was usefull until I really had a usage for them.

My case was that I wanted to parse HTML content, and only capture text between tags (like a text representation of an HTML Email.

I found it on the CodeProject, even if I searched other good sources of Regular Expressions like http://www.regexlib.com . This article also had a great explanation on how to use it, in basic and advanced case. It also include a great soft that is really usefull to test regular expressions.

(?<=<(\w+)>).*(?=<\/\1>)

or better than that <(.|\n)*?>

... and my rating was : 5 / 5, great job.

Ref:

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/regextutorial.asp

http://www.knowdotnet.com/articles/matchevaluator.html

-f.

Cannot download ISO from IIS
11 April 06 10:12 AM | Frederick.Chapleau | with no comments

Got a small problem, that I wasn't able to download an ISO from a IIS 6.0 Server.

The problem, but for Microsoft it's more a normal behavior, IIS 6.0 do not serve unknown file type!! So you must specify explicitly a mime type for an unknown extension.

For an ISO (and almost any binary file) : application/octet-stream

Ref.: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=326965

-f.