In Java, What exactly is Parsing? Why are they used? For example: Integer.parseInt(...), and parsing a string?

May 29, 2010 · On some existential level, every program is about turning one kind of data into another kind of data (isn't that the definition of a function?). I think a clearer way of expressing it would be to …

I have many rows in XML and I'm trying to get instances of a particular node attribute.

I want to parse a JSON string in JavaScript. The response is something like var response = '{"result":true,"count":1}'; How can I get the values result and count from this?

Jan 22, 2009 · Parse throws an exception if it cannot parse the value, whereas TryParse returns a bool indicating whether it succeeded. TryParse does not just try / catch internally - the whole point of it is …

Apr 10, 2009 · The fact that JavaScript doesn't have a built-in way to parse URLs that works on browsers or servers is pretty sad...

For parsing player commands, I've most often used the split method to split a string by delimiters and then to then just figure out the rest by a series of ifs or switches. What are some different ...

I have date and time in a string formatted like that one: "2011-03-21 13:26" //year-month-day hour:minute How can I parse it to System.DateTime? I want to use functions like DateTime.Parse() or

What's the easiest, tersest, and most flexible method or library for parsing Python command line arguments?

JSON.parse() is used for parsing data that was received as JSON; it deserializes a JSON string into a JavaScript object. JSON.stringify() on the other hand is used to create a JSON string out of an object …