Re: Lexicon management

I use a Filemaker (sic!) database, but I regularly export the
whole or part of it to a tab separated text file in order to
do batch operations on the contents with the help of perl or
a text editor, mainly because FileMaker doesn't support any
powerful search-and-replace or regular expressions. For example
there is a kind of vowel-harmony in the selection of the present
tense ending of Mærik(1), which I had to do with perl regular
expressions.  Each entry has a unique ID number, and this is
used to get things right when re-importing entries into the
database.

(1) Actually it is i-umlaut making the root-vowel front if
the theme-vowel is front, but in practice I had generated the
roots with their front/back vowels first, adding the theme
vowel based on the front/backness of the root vowel!

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B.Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

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