discuss: Sorting a dictionary
Subject:
Re: Sorting a dictionary
From:
Martin WHEELER ####@####.####
Date:
17 Jun 2004 11:34:46 -0000
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Binh Nguyen wrote:
> I'm currently getting a serious update of the Linux
> Dictionary ready. However, I'm having a bit of a
> problem as to how to sort the darn thing into
> alphabetical order. Has anyone got any ideas?
Binh __
Have you still got the dictionary held in a database, entry by entry?
(When we were playing about with it last year we had it under MySQL if
you remember.) It was then an absolute doddle to re-arrange all the
entries in (ASCII) alphabetical order and then re-save, or print out, in
the new order. In fact, that's one of the reasons I set it up the way I
did -- individual entries could be made at any time and in any order,
and the whole corpus printed out as desired.
> insertion one by one is not really
> feasible.
I should think NOT !!! :)
Cheers,
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