Extracting characters from flashcard words

[David Miller]

I have a flashcard set that is comprised of multi-character words.
Is there any way to create a new flashcard set comprised of the
individual characters from those words? If not, do you think it's
feasible to do this manually by editing an exported text file?

Thanks,
David

 

[Shun]

Hi, you could try the following:

1. Export your flashcard set to a text file, not including definitions
2. Open it up in Excel to remove the pinyin column
3. Copy the Hanzi column to a text editor, where you Search and Replace all carriage returns and replace them with nothing
4. Hard Wrap the text with a line width of 1 character (or in a grep editor, search for "(?)" and replace all with "\1\n")
5. Import the text file into a new category (adding a "// (category)" line at the start), telling Pleco to fill in missing fields. You can set "Ambiguous entries" to "Prompt", so if there's more than one pronunciation for a Hanzi, you can pick the one you want.

Regards, Shun

 

[David Miller]

Thanks, Shun. It shouldn't be too hard to write a script to do this.
The hardest part perhaps will be the duplicate checking: I want to
create a list of *unique* characters. : )

 

[Shun]

You're welcome! Or in Import Flashcards, you can set Duplicates to Skip.

Regards, Shun


Edit: Excel can remove duplicate cells, as well. (solution through Google)