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in reply to What does the word "parse" mean?

Roughly, it means taking a bunch of text apart, looking for the pieces your are interested in and doing something with them.

Is that general enough?

Scott

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Re^2: Parse
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 23, 2013 at 22:27 UTC
    Kinda, now can you list what you can and cant do with parsed data? Or how to parse data?