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Segmenting and extracting data from a string

Posted 12 years ago

I have a long dictionary-like string that I want to segment and store. It is in the format: WORDA (n.) Definition. WORDB (n.) Definition. I want to store the data in a list of the form: {{"WORDA","n.","Definition."},{"WORDB","n.","Definition."}} Is there any (simple) way to do this WITHOUT using regular expressions? -Jesse

POSTED BY: Jesse Friedman

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Posted 12 years ago

s=" WORDA (n.) Definition. WORDB (n.) Definition. "; Partition[#,3]&@Flatten[Import[StringToStream@s,"Lines"]/.w_String:>StringSplit[w]]

POSTED BY: Rolf Mertig

Posted 12 years ago

I think showing a working reasonably sized actual string (just a few word defenitions) would help to figure this out. I guess your "Definition" is quite a few words and the whole string is quotation marks or stored in a file originally?

POSTED BY: Vitaliy Kaurov

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