discuss: Terminology Base
Subject:
Re: Terminology Base
From:
"Binh Nguyen" ####@####.####
Date:
24 Jun 2003 02:44:47 -0000
Message-Id: <Law15-DAV2135sQtgTI0004a34c@hotmail.com>
Chris Karakas wrote:
> alpha1429 wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone happen to know of a program to sort this thing or will I
>> have to write one myself? Its organised this :-
>>
>> Meaning
>> Few Paragraph Explaination
>>
>> Meaning
>> Few Paragraph Explaination
>>
>> etc....
>
> Looks a perfect exercise in awk (1) to me: the Record Separator (RS)
> is an empty line, the Field Separator (FS) a new line (\n). A record
> contains only two fields. We could extract them with awk, then tell
> awk to write the SQL INSERT commands on the fly, thus creating a file
> that could be directly input to MySQL. You could then start queries,
> removal/merge of double entries etc.
>
> So why are you doing this manually? Even awk can sort it
> alphabetically for you. If you like, send me a piece to play with. :-)
>
> (1)See, for example http://www.canberra.edu.au/~sam/whp/awk-guide.html
Thankyou for the offer but Anothony E. Greene has already taken care of it.
I would like to know of an easy/automated way in which we could update this
thing though because I think that it is highly likely that it will be
rapidly updated once it is out in the public. Just to let people know how
things are going all contributors have now submitted their sections
(although one needs to be resent due to file corruption) so its pretty much
editing from now on.
Binh.
