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> From: BBEdit-Talk List on behalf of Jd Lyall
> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 6:54 AM
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> I have a large text file for a kreyol/english dictionary.
> I want to convert it into a dict file for a beiks dictionary reader for
> Palm.
>
> Beiks has said
> >"Hi,
> > if you send to me the dictionary in an excel document with two
> columns -
> > one for the words and one for the translations, I will convert it into
> a
> > lexicon for BDicty for you for free and will send it back to you :-)
>
> My text file looks like this:
> *****
> abound / gen anpil, abonde
> about / apropo, a
> about to (do something) / fè sa pou
> above / anlè, soutèt
> *****
>
> Now, I need to parse this file with a large number of lines and extract
> all the chars in front of the '/' and write them to a new file, then put
> in a new line. Then throw away the '/', get the rest of the chars and
> write that in a second new file, with a new line.
>
> Any hints?
>
Assuming each def is on a single line, there are no tabs, and there is just
one /, between the English and Kreyol, I would search for " / " (that's
space-slash-space) and replace with a tab (\t).
> I guess NeoOffice can make an excel file.
>
I would open the text file into NeoOffice, using tabs to delimit the file
(at least I would if I had NO, this is how I would do it in Excel, I don't
know if NO can import text files, I'm guessing it can). This would give you
a two column file, english in first column, kreyol in second. If Beiks would
be so kind, Beiks could open the text file in Excel for you, if Beiks has
Excel.
Dennis
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