From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-10-07T11:05:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Google Calculator command line tool

On 10/6/05, m4dc4p <jgbailey@gmail.com> wrote:
> I should have explained the format_result proc a little. Google's
> responses have spaces (using '<font size=-2> </font>') instead of
> commas, so that is the first replacement. The second two deal with
> scientific notation. Try entering a query like "400 lightyears * 10
> parsecs" and you will see the characters its trying to replace.

For what it's worth, it's probably better to look at reimplementing
this using the Google WS API, because Google looks down (harshly) on
screen scraping.

-austin
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