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My article grabbing software

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Thu, 08 Apr 21 9:51 PM | 37 view(s)
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I may as well fess up to the fact that my software for grabbing articles has a bug in it that introduces spelling mistakes. I know that sounds bogus but it's true. I haven't figured out how to fix it, either - 'cuz the bug is not a problem with the program's logic.

What's going on is that my software snags an article and all of its underlying code into the Windows cut-and-paste buffer, writes it to disk, removes all the unwanted HTML crap that is often present (you'd be surprised how much junk exists in even the smallest of articles), converts other constructs into forms that work on Atomic Bobs, loads it back into the cut-and-paste buffer and ends. It does all of this faster than my hardware can handle, sometimes editing files before the files have finished being written to disk from the previous edit and thereby dropping letters kind of randomly. It's annoying. If I run the program five times I'm likely to get five different results with various spelling mistakes that I can then search for and fix.

I'm bringing this up because I *do* run the spell checker and fix the mistakes I find but I don't always catch them all, especially since the spell checker usually complains about the code that I've intentionally added to or allowed to remain in articles. I don't want you folks seeing screwed up articles and concluding that the authors are inept. (And I don't much care if you conclude I am. As I said, I don't actually know a good way to fix this bug.)

Fortunately, the problem doesn't happen too often. A long article might have five or six such errors. I usually pan through the article at the end and fix the mistakes in less than a minute.




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