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pzack · 09-13-2022, 10:25 AM

Goodmorning M. Markismus,

Thank you for your response and please alert me when your patience wears thin with all this.

You hit the nail on the head when you said that I like puzzling this thing out. My facination with computers and program languages started with Dbase2 in 1985 when I taught myself to write a few business programs in Dbase code. Since then, from time to time-when I have the time!-I latch onto a problem. Oh the frustating hours trying to install Arch Linux before the arrival on the scene of the calamares installer! All that work...and I don't use Arch at all. It's an intellectual diversion for me and I find it a little stimulating for the gray matter. Never heard of perl until I met you or pyglossary until I started to mess with this stuff.

I take it, since you didn't mention it, that the perl code that I entered in terminal is correct? Sarmat89, who appears to be following this thread pointed out to me the missing "<>" signs.

My file manager shows no directory of output1 so how could I have a directory in this name? Thus, if it does not show up in file manager, how could it be there?

One thing though,and perhaps this is off the wall,but the snippet that you have of the full terxt does not contain all the very lengthy introductory material that is in the beginning of the dictionary. I don't think that this would be an issue for the conversion and that this material is not important for the word look-up. I imagine the conversion would just ignore this material. Could this be posing a problem?

When I put in the "<>" signs for the first text file in each line of your code is when I got the "this is a directory" error. Without the <> the code executed,but, as you already know, the csv file created was empty.

I will try converting the snippet in a new directory.

I will be 73 years old near end of september and I'd like to get this dictionary functioning under stardict in koreader as a wee little gift to myself.

Need your help, though! You're the only one who seems to know this stuff.

very cordially,
pz

09-13-2022, 10:25 AM	#43
pzack Connoisseur Posts: 79 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2022 Device: kobo sage,elipsa	Goodmorning M. Markismus, Thank you for your response and please alert me when your patience wears thin with all this. You hit the nail on the head when you said that I like puzzling this thing out. My facination with computers and program languages started with Dbase2 in 1985 when I taught myself to write a few business programs in Dbase code. Since then, from time to time-when I have the time!-I latch onto a problem. Oh the frustating hours trying to install Arch Linux before the arrival on the scene of the calamares installer! All that work...and I don't use Arch at all. It's an intellectual diversion for me and I find it a little stimulating for the gray matter. Never heard of perl until I met you or pyglossary until I started to mess with this stuff. I take it, since you didn't mention it, that the perl code that I entered in terminal is correct? Sarmat89, who appears to be following this thread pointed out to me the missing "<>" signs. My file manager shows no directory of output1 so how could I have a directory in this name? Thus, if it does not show up in file manager, how could it be there? One thing though,and perhaps this is off the wall,but the snippet that you have of the full terxt does not contain all the very lengthy introductory material that is in the beginning of the dictionary. I don't think that this would be an issue for the conversion and that this material is not important for the word look-up. I imagine the conversion would just ignore this material. Could this be posing a problem? When I put in the "<>" signs for the first text file in each line of your code is when I got the "this is a directory" error. Without the <> the code executed,but, as you already know, the csv file created was empty. I will try converting the snippet in a new directory. I will be 73 years old near end of september and I'd like to get this dictionary functioning under stardict in koreader as a wee little gift to myself. Need your help, though! You're the only one who seems to know this stuff. very cordially, pz