Re: Re: News alerts using the BBC's news ticker data file

Tried this out yesterday and thought it was the bomb! Great job.
But I tried it out today and found that it returned nothing but the categories. Checking the grammar I found that the DATE specification failes on dates like "1 April" as it is only a 1-digit day, rather than as expected in the grammar as "01 April".
If the DATE is changed to "DATE: /0-9+ A-Z a-z+ 0-9{4}/" then it works again.

Ed

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Re: Re: Re: News alerts using the BBC's news ticker data file by dbush (Deacon) on Apr 02, 2003 at 14:07 UTC
Many thanks bfdi533. Just goes to show how rusty my grammar writing skills were/are. I've made the correction to the original node. Regards, Dom. PS: You may be wondering where your [ and ] characters have gone and why have strange hyperlinks appeared? The answer is that those characters are used to create links within the site. This link, although outdated, has more information.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: News alerts using the BBC's news ticker data file by Anonymous Monk on Apr 02, 2003 at 16:24 UTC
Yes, I was wondering about that. Thanks for the link; I now know the "error of my ways" in that last posting. BTW, I think your grammar solution with `[0-9]{1,2}` is much more elegant than my `[0-9]+`. Ed	[reply] [d/l] [select]