As I wrote above, by making sure that I use a placeholder that does not appear in the data, I make sure that it does not cause the issues you describe. And if I was wrong with that assumption, I can at least minimize the effect by choosing a very unlikely sequence as placeholder.

I really see no issue here. How do you find valid grammars for fuzzy data in practice?

At least Google seems to have a way to detect visually similar letters.

My approach never failed for me, so telling me that my strategy does not work is a strong claim, where it reliably did the job for me.

Your examples are all valid, but what you are describing are theoretical attacks on the method, while the method works in almost all cases in practice. We are talking about two different viewpoints: dealing with large amounts of messy data on one hand and parser theory in an ideal cosmos on the other hand.

What should happen? Since #COMMA is not #COMMA#, it gets not replaced, because it does not match.

Please keep in mind, that I replied to suni's very specific question and did not try to start a discussion about general parser theory. In practice, we find a lot of files that do not respect the grammar, but still need to find a way to make the data accessible.

When it comes to parsing, the thing is that you usually have to make some assumptions about the document structure.

And there it clearly works. I used this technique a few times with success. If you find a CSV file that has mixed field separator types, then you probably found a broken CSV file.

Edit/addition: Honestly, I could have much more respect for this project, if Wu-Tang made it only accessible to homeless people, or only to prisoners, but effectively, they make it only accessible to the riches. I really do like the Wu-Tang Clan, but I am really not impressed by this stunt.

So Wu-Tang Clan fans in Kazakhstan or Tanzania (or even every country other than the U.S.) will probably never be able to listen to this album...? I guess these will be the people who don't "understand" what Wu-Tang Clan is doing, while only the privileged ones "understand" the concept.

That's artificial shortage, not art (not talking about the music itself).

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I own a Sony reader and I actually enjoy that it is not tightly bundled with a bookstore.

Microsoft is not any worse than the other companies. They are all at the same terrible level.

But Microsoft became a bit better over the last years, I would say.

The translation method is not really effective:

> We also show that automated attempts at circumventing stylometry using machine translation may not be as effective, often altering the meaning of text while providing only small drops in accuracy.

https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~sa499/papers/adversarial_stylomet...

http://docs.angularjs.org/misc/faq

"Per word" of the source language, or the target language? Sum of both? What about languages which have a different concept of "words" in written text (e.g. Chinese, Turkish, ...).

And by the way... "cent" of which currency? :)

Edit: I just saw that the list of supported languages does not contain languages with "exotic" types of word boundaries (yet).

http://jqueryui.com/position/