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A long time ago, I sat down to develop something I ended up calling a Glossary Browser, which was designed to search glossary files that were basically text files of a certain format.

Only after I having played with the animal for a while did I realize that just about any text file was usable with the program, as long as the "units" of information remained within one line of text, because all the formatting I had introduced was fairly simple (e.g., a '|' character became a line break), so unless a file had pathological content, it would work with my "GB" program.

This has allowed me to take multiple client-supplied "glossary" files supplied for a project, rip them apart, and then consolidate them into one file, thereby tremendously simplifying the process of using such files.

And a few minutes ago, I plugged in a file with 80,000 declined Russian words, and was pleasantly surprised to find the data being searched without any hiccup. (Entering 'яма' as a query fetches and displays all 13 corresponding lines of text from the file in less than 2 seconds.)

I think I may have found (created?) a valuable tool in my eternal quest to understand Russian declensions.

Cheers...

Date: 2009-06-25 04:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daphnis.livejournal.com
Is it Trade-mark-able? Or simply a matter of synchronicity striking again
and again, and
again?

Date: 2009-06-26 10:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexpgp.livejournal.com
The latter, definitely.

Cheers...

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