Mark>> Hein, could you also explain what the script does? It also did not work for me
Sure... I often do, but it was late. I also failed to add to check out 'join' as i intended. That may do the job, but with less control/options.
I suspected problems with unicode chars. I could not nicely 'paste' the data from your topic into a Unix window. Windows accepted it, but suggested to store as unicode. The partially pasted sample does work with my first script on a Unix box. Try that? For better help, and any future questions, be sure to ATTACH the real data (in a txt document?) as the forum munges tabs and spaces.
Anyways.... my first script:
1) loop over input arguments (allows for more than 2 lanugage files some day)
2) open current input file
3) loop through current input file
4) chop to drop newline for future 'append'.
5) if you see whitespace followed by "<", a word, and "> then it looks like a useful line.
6) take everything 'left' of the matched string a key for a list of english words.
7) create a list of translated words using the englisgh key, with the language appended to the key, storign the value for that combo.
8) when all the loops are done, look through all the english words (from whatever input file) and make a print line with the english, the looked-up value for the translated values (if any)!
You may wnat to replace the \s+ with \t for just a tab.
The second example dealt with the files stored as unicode in a crummy way by just treating each 16 bit unicode char as a single char plus '.' = any-char.
It also 'counts' each foreign language usage, with the main intent to just register that language.
After the input loops it then make and inventory of the languages seen and uses those to select the foreing language entries.
Currently hardcoded as just 2, but easily expanded to a loop over more language if that is ever needed.
hth,
Hein.
