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An unexpected benefit...
Jun. 24th, 2009 07:23 pmA 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...
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...
