2009-04-22, 04:56
Okay i've figured it out how to use a regex to replace the spaces now... for the record when i use scrap using scrap.exe the url returns 'Blah+blah+blah' when i use xbmc the log reports that its scrapng for 'Blah%20blah%20blah'
Just one small observation.. even the guide for dummies on writing scrapers is a bit high brow... one has to read through it about 30 times while trying it to figure it out completely... for instance one thing that's not FULLY addressed is exactley what all the 'special characters' that need to be escaped are that much i still haven't figured out yet, but i guess its because i still don't completely understand XML...
The only reason i'm getting it right now is because i wrote a little VB program to output my regular expressions to xml-encoded strings.
Just one small observation.. even the guide for dummies on writing scrapers is a bit high brow... one has to read through it about 30 times while trying it to figure it out completely... for instance one thing that's not FULLY addressed is exactley what all the 'special characters' that need to be escaped are that much i still haven't figured out yet, but i guess its because i still don't completely understand XML...
The only reason i'm getting it right now is because i wrote a little VB program to output my regular expressions to xml-encoded strings.
