Re: kanjidic parser in Perl?

Ben Bullock wrote:

"Gabor Farkas" <gabor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1f516$42ffa6b0$55d8898b$6438@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Ben Bullock wrote:

David Alexander Ranvig wrote:

Ben Bullock <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

| Does anyone know of a parser for Jim Breen's kanjidic written in
| Perl?

<URL: http://search.cpan.org> is a nice tool for finding all things
perl. Maybe you can use the module Lingua::JP::Kanjidic by Simon
Cozens?



Thanks for the tip. I had a look at it, and it seems to need some work. Doesn't parse all the fields in the dictionary yet, unfortunately. I'll try editing it up a bit. 



sorry, but what are you trying to achieve?
i mean, what advanced features you need from a kanjidic parser?

for me it seems that 2-3 lines of perl (mostly splits) would completely parse the kanjidic database for you... 


Thanks for your input.


very funny ;))

the problem is that i can read perl relatively well, but i'm not good enough to be able to write it (i use python to solve text processing problems)

but i know that perl can split a string into by the whitespace, and that should be enough for your needs (if you know perl).

in python, the code would look approximately like:

d = {}

for line in open('kanjidic.txt'):
	line = line.split()
	kanji = line[0]
	english = []
	readings = []
	for item in line[1:]:
		if not item[0].isalphanum():
			if item[0] == '{':
				english.append( item[1:-1] )
			else:
				readings.append(item)
	d[kanji] = (readings,english)


i'm pretty sure that this can be translated line-by-line to perl...

gabor
.

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