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i explain it all here
How to Build a Regex Engine in C#[^]
but basically a symbol is something you attach to an expression. as you move through text, several patterns/expressions are evaluated and the one that matches on each move is reported. The symbol id is what is reported.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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tl;dr - but I still think it's a nifty clue - hmm... now if we could do that for anagrams... hmmm
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Ah, so it's basically a classification of the value -- such as the part-of-speech of a word.
I'm mainly asking due to my recent foray into the parsing (or probably just lexing) of JSON.
As it stands, my "tokens" are just bare strings with no classification -- or all have the implicit classification of "token".
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honey the codewitch wrote: IT WORKED ON THE FIRST TRY.
Haha, enjoy the feeling of magic 
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Hmmmm,
If you are trying to get back on the Visual Studio team... it ain't gonna happen there is a sign at all building entrances that says 'No witches allowed'. 
If you are looking for a job you should approach Saruman the White. I heard they are looking for witches to assist with building the network of seven palantíri[^].
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I thought the sign was: "Don't feed the programmers"
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honey the codewitch wrote: IT WORKED ON THE FIRST TRY.
sits back and waits for Murphy's law* to strike
* If it worked at the first time, you did it wrong
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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I did eventually find a very minor bug in it, but I fixed it.
What's funny is while I was building the code generation based on a reference implementation I made, I found a bug in the reference implementation in the process.
Though that never would have happened if I hadn't wrapped the CodeDOM.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I am Invincible! (YouTube)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Most madmen think they are 
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honey the codewitch wrote: It generates a whole lot of really complicated code
That's the gold in the message.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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I Am Inevitable[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Quote: IT WORKED ON THE FIRST TRY.
The very first program I ever wrote which was on 31st May 1975 worked first time - it feels great doesn't it?
Congratulations! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I've done it before but maybe never with something this complicated. =)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I'm replacing a ruby on rails site with C#/mvc. For the most part it's a complete rewrite because of problems with the site being scrapped. There're occasional parts where some logic is worth a directish port though. One is scoring standardized tests.
I've got a test responses table full of columns like:
Section1Question1Answer CHAR(1),
Section1Question2Answer CHAR(1),
...
Section1Question5Answer CHAR(1),
Section2Question1Answer CHAR(1),
Section2Question2Answer CHAR(1),
...
Section13Question5Answer CHAR(1),
The ruby code is then able to access the data like:
for section in 1..SECTION_COUNT
for question in 1..QUESTION_COUNT
test_to_score["Section{section}Question{question}Answer"] #do stuff
end
end
In C# I'm stuck with accessing them 1 at a time
TestToScore.Section1Question1Answer
TestToScore.Section1Question2Answer
I'm not doing enough processing for load/unloading temp arrays to be worthwhile, and every time I've thought to myself that reflection would be a good way to solve a problem I've ended up regretting it.  Redoing the DB to store a single answer/row instead of a test attempt/row would just change where the pain points are; and since the test will always be M sections of N questions each keeping the entire response together is a lot simpler.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Reflection.
Or put a reference to the fields, or whatever, into an array... and iterate.
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Did you read what I wrote to the end? Every time I've done reflection it ends up becoming a footgun at some point in the future; and for what amounts to a single pass over the scores loading/unloading into arrays is just as verbose as accessing everything once directly.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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My first was "reflection" as well, but then I read what you wrote at the end 
I don't think reflection could hurt here though.
It's just a small piece with a clear function.
It wouldn't be much different than how Ruby solves it, which is calling the member using a literal string.
It could go wrong if your naming convention changes or if someone added QuestionXSectionYAnswer (switching Question and Section), but that goes for the Ruby code as well.
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Sander Rossel wrote: It wouldn't be much different than how Ruby solves it, which is calling the member using a literal string.
I know the feature in ruby works because its hashes all the way down (until you get to the pipe were the designers smoke it anyway); but the hackiness there is a core language feature not a gun that shoots bullets in multiple directions with every trigger pull only more dangerous.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I see your point, but I'd still recommend reflection.
Although typing out this stuff once isn't such a big deal either.
writing a reflection solution probably costs you as much time as writing it out.
The only reason to use reflection is because it's more fun to write 
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I generated the 1 off code. Used a mix of typing and excel copydown to generate the numbers and then regexed the code I wanted out.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Or start with an array?
Section1Answers VARCHAR(N)
Then just parse/count and iter. Less of a mess in the DB?
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Maybe. Not sure what he's trying to accomplish. Maybe a table with question and answer columns?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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