Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Creating a dictionary with libreoffice from a simple TXT-file

On Thu, 25 Dec 2014, hdv@gmail wrote:

> On 2014-12-25 07:17, Constantine wrote:
> > Brian,
> >
> > you are unbelievable!!!
> >
> > While I solved the problem with my very sloppy trick and was writing
> > my mail in order to inform you about it, you were looking for a
> > correct solution and writing this very long and very very detailed
> > answer.
> >
> > I am just speechless.
> >
> > I saved all of your instructions, not twice but three times and also
> > printed them out. They are priceless.
> >
> > These expressions are things that I need very often and very badly
> > when working on my translations and they will make my life much
> > easier in the future. I know, that even if I had spent 30 more hours
> > studying the manual, I would probably never have come to such clean
> > expressions.
> >
> > Thank you for everything. I really hope I can do something for you
> > in the
>
> Hi Constatine,
>
> I am a bit late in the thread to help you with this specific case (glad
> to see it is solved), but I'd like to suggest something. I think you
> wrote that you are working on a Linux system and are willing to learn.
> In that case one of the best things you can do to help yourself with
> similar problems in the future is to look into vim and especially into
> regular expressions too. Your replacement needs would have been
> something that regular expressions would have helped you with a lot. In
> particular things like postive/negative lookahead/lookback. If vim is
> not your thing, then Emacs might be more to your liking. Both can be a
> tremendous help with any problem that has to do with text. It will take
> some effort to learn vim/Emacs and regular expressions, but it will be
> worth every second.
>
> Grx HdV

did I misread the thread? I thought the solutions Brian produced _did_ 
use regular expressions only within the context of LO.

not a big reg exp man myself but I probably would have attempted it 
with 'sed' which is also an 'editor' I guess.

subsequently Constantine points out he was exhausted and I very much 
know what it means to be stuck barking up the wrong tree! after a bit 
they all look the same.

F.

--
Felmon Davis

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of 
them is a match.
                -- Will Rogers


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