The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #75122 Message #2515218
Posted By: BK Lick
14-Dec-08 - 04:47 PM
Thread Name: Little known '60s Folk Singers
Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
Bobad sez:"How the heck did you do that?"
Ya gotta have a really good text editor that facilitates search and replace operations using grep pattern matching.
Essentially, the process was:
- find all sequences of two or more capitalized words
- list these sequences, discarding all the other text
- sort the list and eliminate duplicates
- manually delete each item that doesn't look like a name
- arrange each name into [lastname, othernames] format
- sort by lastname
- rearrange names back to original format
Everything but step 4. is readily done by search and replace operations—BK