JPH03233670A - Text data conversion system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To edit a text to a general form without requiring troublesome operation by providing a means which deletes an unnecessary space character code and a means which deletes an unnecessary line feed code. CONSTITUTION:A program part 20 is provided with a space character code deleting part 20c which executes the processing to delete the unnecessary space character code from text data and a line feed code deleting part 20d which executes the processing to delete the unnecessary line feed code. A data managing part 30 is provided with a character string temporary storage buffer 30d where text data inputted from an external storage device 40 is stored and a generated character string storage buffer 30h. Consequently, text data is obtained which has unnecessary space character code and line feed code deleted to have the continuity of contents. Thus, edited results are obtained without requiring troublesome operation though it is necessary to edit data into a general text.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Object of the Invention] (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention provides a text data conversion method for converting document data (text data) of a document created by a document creation device such as a word processor. Regarding.

(Prior art) Generally, when creating text (documents) using a word processor, in order to make the document easier to read, spaces are inserted at the beginning of each line so that the beginnings of the lines are aligned. In some cases, a left margin is provided or a line break is added in the middle of a line to equalize the number of characters in one line.

However, when such texts were created, the following problems occurred.

(1) When modifying the created text.

When a word (character) included in a certain line is deleted, the next line (word/phrase) that is semantically connected to the same line does not automatically follow. As a result, the number of characters included in the line decreases, and the operator has to perform some operations such as moving to the first word of the next line, which requires a great deal of effort.

(2) When displaying the created text on another display system.

When displaying the created text, if the number of characters per line of the display system that is trying to display the text is different from the number of characters per line of the display system when the text was created, line breaks may occur at unintended positions. In some cases, blank strings that were originally intended to represent the left margin were displayed as meaningless blank strings.

(3) When searching for words from the created text.

When searching for a character string (word) in text, if it is originally a single word but is divided by line breaks or blank strings, the word will not be matched with the target word. Therefore, it is not possible to search.

(4) When the created text is automatically proofread or translated by each processing function.

If what is normally a single sentence is divided by line breaks or blank strings, it becomes difficult to perform processes such as morphological analysis and syntactic analysis that are necessary for automatic proofreading or translation. Therefore, it becomes difficult to execute various processing functions such as automatic proofreading and automatic translation.

For this reason, when modifying text that has been created by inserting a blank string at the beginning of each line or by adding a line break in the middle of a line to make the text easier to read, it is necessary to When displaying, searching for words, proofreading.

When translation is automatically performed by each processing function,
It was necessary to delete meaningless blank strings and line breaks (codes) from each line as necessary, edit the text into a general format, and then execute it.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) In this way, for text that has a blank string inserted at the beginning of each line or a line break in the middle of a line for the purpose of making the text easier to read, other processing ( (1) to (4) above
), blank strings, line breaks (
This requires work such as deleting code), which poses a problem of lowering processing efficiency.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide a text data conversion method that can delete unnecessary blank characters and line breaks in text without requiring troublesome operations. purpose.

[Object of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) The present invention provides a first text data storage for storing text data in which character codes of various characters including blank character codes and line feed codes are arranged in a predetermined order. blank character code deleting means for deleting unnecessary blank character codes from the text data stored in the text data storage means; a second line feed code for storing text data from which blank character codes and line feed codes have been deleted by the line feed code deletion means, the blank character code deletion means, and the line feed code deletion means; The apparatus is configured to extract continuous text data from which unnecessary blank character codes and line feed codes have been deleted from the text.

(Function) According to this configuration, unnecessary blank character codes and line feed codes inserted for the purpose of making the document easier to read when displayed on a display system or printed are deleted. Therefore, when performing word searches, proofreading using automatic processing functions, translation, etc., which can be performed under the condition that text data is continuous (not divided by blank characters or line feed codes), cumbersome operations are required. This method eliminates the need for text editing.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an information processing apparatus to which the text data conversion method according to the embodiment is applied. As shown in the figure, a program section 20 and a data storage section 30 are managed by a control section IO that controls text data conversion processing.

Further, the device is connected to an external storage device 40 constituted by a hard disk device or the like for storing programs, text data, and the like.

The program unit 20 includes an initialization unit 20a that performs initialization processing when executing text editing processing to delete unnecessary blank characters and line feed codes in text data, and an initialization unit 20a that performs initialization processing when executing text editing processing to delete unnecessary blank characters and line feed codes in text data. a data reading unit 20b that stores data in the area of the data storage unit 30; a blank character code deletion unit 20c1 that executes processing to delete unnecessary blank character codes from text data to be processed; and a blank character code deletion unit 20c1 that deletes unnecessary line feed codes from text data. A line feed code deleting unit 20d is provided to perform the processing to delete the line feed code.

The data management unit 30 includes a line counter buffer 30a for storing the value of the total number of lines of text input from the external storage device 40, and a line counter buffer 30a for storing the input character position for storing the character position in the external storage device 40. Buffer 30b, output character position storage buffer 3 that stores the position where text data of generated character string storage buffer 30h, which will be described later, should be stored.
Character string-time storage buffer 30 for temporarily storing text data input from the 0C1 external storage device 40
d. Character string storage buffer 30e1 for storing the contents of the character string-time storage buffer 30c for later processing.
Character count counter buffer 30f for storing the number of characters in the character string stored in the character string-time storage buffer 30d1 Character counter storage buffer for saving the contents of the character counter buffer 30f for later processing 30g1 and a generated character string storage buffer 30h for storing a character string from which unnecessary blank characters and line breaks obtained as a result of text editing processing have been deleted.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

First, when the system is started and instructions are given to execute text editing processing to delete unnecessary blank characters and line feed codes in text data, the initialization unit 20 in the program unit 20
a starts. The initialization unit 20a initializes various variables and buffers in the data storage unit 30 (step Sl
). Here, in particular, the value "0° (zero) is stored in the line counter buffer 30a, the manual character position storage buffer 30b, and the output character position storage buffer 30c. When the initialization is completed, the data reading unit 20b is activated, The text data (a part of it) stored in the external storage device 40 is transferred to the character string-time storage buffer 30d (step S2).The storage format of the text data in the external storage device 40 is In FIG. 3, rCRJ is a line feed code, rsPcJ is a blank character code (space), and other characters are character codes.In other words, the data reading unit 20b reads the input character Starting from the character position indicated by the contents of the position storage buffer 30b, the unit (
One line of character string) is stored in the character string-time storage buffer 30d.
are stored sequentially from the beginning, including the trailing newline code.

When the text data is stored in the character string-time storage buffer 30d, the contents of the input character position storage buffer 30b are updated to indicate the next position of the read line feed code in the external storage device 40. Furthermore, "1" is added to the contents of the row counter buffer 30a.

In step S2, if the text data cannot be read, that is, the input character position storage buffer 30
If character data (including line feed and blank character codes) is not stored at the character position indicated by the data stored in b, the process in this method is ended (step S3).

On the other hand, in step S2, if the text data has been successfully read, the blank character code deletion unit 20c is activated. The blank character code deletion unit 20c determines whether the content of the line counter buffer 30a is "1" (whether the target line is the first line of the text) (step S4
). If the content of the row counter buffer 30a is "1",
In other words, immediately after the first line of text is read from the external storage device 40, the blank character code deletion unit 20
c transfers the character string data (text data) stored in the character-time storage buffer 30d to the character string storage buffer 30e (step S5). Next, the number of characters in one line (including blank character codes) is counted from the text data in the character-time storage buffer 30d, and the counted number is stored in the character number counter buffer 30f. The result of counting the number of characters is transferred from the character number counter buffer 30f to the character number counter storage buffer 30f.
g and stored (steps S6 and S7). This count value of the number of characters in one line is used in a process executed later to delete unnecessary line feed codes. The blank character code deletion unit 20c is a character string-hour storage buffer 3.
It is determined whether a blank character code exists at the beginning of the text data stored in 0d (step S8). If a blank character code exists at the beginning (including consecutive blank character codes), delete the leading blank character code (including consecutive blank character codes) stored in the character string storage buffer 30e (step S9). FIG. 4 shows how this blank character code is deleted.

Note that if it is determined in step S8 that there is no blank character code, the character string storage buffer 30
Proceed to the next process without manipulating the contents of e.

Next, the process moves to step S2, and the line feed code r is started from the character position indicated by the contents of the input character position storage buffer 30b.
The character strings up to CRJ (character strings in the next line) are processed in the same manner as described above, starting from the beginning of the character string-hour storage buffer 30d.
Store including the trailing newline code. Here, if the text data has been successfully read (step S3), the value of the line counter is not "1" (step S4), so the blank character code deletion unit 20c is activated and the blank character code for the next line is changed. Deletion processing is executed. First, the blank character code deletion unit 20c deletes the character string-hour storage buffer 3 (
The number of characters in one line from the text data stored in ld (
(including blank character codes) and stores the counted number in the character number counter buffer 30f (step 5IO). This count value of the number of characters in one line is used together with the count value indicating the number of characters in the previous line stored in the character counter storage pant 730g, in the process to delete unnecessary line feed codes in the text data that will be executed later. used. The blank character code deletion unit 20c deletes the character string -
It is determined whether a blank character code exists at the beginning of the text data stored in the time storage buffer 30d (step 511). If a blank character code exists at the beginning (including consecutive blank character codes), the character string storage buffer 3
Delete the leading blank character code (including consecutive blank character codes) stored in C1e (Step 5L2), and place the result in the position indicated by the contents of the output character position storage buffer 30c of the generated character string storage buffer 30h. Transfer and store (step 813). Then, the number of characters stored in the generated character string storage buffer 30h is added to the contents of the output character position storage buffer 30c. Note that if it is determined in step Sll that there is no blank character code, the process moves to the next process without operating the contents of the character string storage buffer 30e.

When the unnecessary blank character code added to the beginning of the line is thus deleted, the line feed code deletion unit 20d is activated. The line feed code deletion unit 2Dd has a character count counter buffer 30f.
The number of characters in the last read line (the line currently being processed) stored in the buffer 30 for storing the character count counter
The difference between the number of characters in the previous line stored in g is calculated (step 514).

Here, if the result obtained by the calculation is not 0, that is, if the number of characters included in one line is different from the line read in the previous step S2 (the last line read) (step 515), further Determine which has more characters, the line currently being processed or the previous line (Step 8
16). Here, if the number of characters in the character string in the previous line is smaller than that in the previous line, the previous line is determined to be the line containing the last part of the sentence.

For example, if text data as shown in FIG. 5 is to be processed, the line ``shown.'' is the line that includes the last part of the sentence. Therefore, the line feed code deletion unit 20d stores the line feed code at the position indicated by the contents of the output character position storage buffer 30c in the generated character string storage buffer 30h (step 517). Further, if it is determined in step Sit that the number of characters in the character string in the previous line is larger than that in the previous line, the last character code of the text data stored in the character string storage buffer 30e is the period code indicating the end of the sentence. It is determined whether or not (step S18). If the end of the text data is a period code, a line feed code is similarly stored in the generated character string storage buffer 30h as the end of the sentence (step S1?). In other words, when the current line to be processed is a line in which the number of characters in one line is smaller than the number of characters in other general text lines, such as a "headline sentence", it is possible to ensure that the previous line has a line feed code. It is to be attached. When the line feed code deletion unit 20d stores the line feed code in the generated character string storage buffer 30h, it adds 1 to the contents of the output character position storage buffer 30c, and moves on to the next process (step S19).

On the other hand, if it is determined in step SI5 that the difference between the number of characters in the current line to be processed and the number of characters in the previous line is equal, the number of characters in one line is equalized by starting a line in the middle of the text line. As a result, the line feed code is not stored in the generated character string storage buffer 30h. Therefore, in step S13, the generated character string storage buffer 3
Since the text data excluding the line feed code is transferred and stored at 0h from the character string storage buffer 30e, by not storing the line feed code here, the line feed code is deleted as a result.

Next, the line feed code deletion unit 20d transfers the text data stored in the character string-time storage buffer 30d to the character string storage buffer 30d in preparation for reading and processing one new line of text data. Transfer and store it immediately (
step 519). Furthermore, when preparation for the next process is completed, the process returns to step S2, the data reading section 20b is activated, and the line indicated by the contents of the line counter buffer 30g is read. Thereafter, the processing is executed as described above.

As a result, the text data as shown in Figure 5 is
The text data is converted to text data with unnecessary blank characters and line feed codes removed, as shown in the figure.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments.

For example, in this embodiment, the processing is performed on text data stored in the external storage device 40, but the processing may be performed on data input via a communication line.

Furthermore, various modifications can be made without departing from the gist of the present invention.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, text in which a blank character string is inserted to provide a left margin for the purpose of making the text easier to read, and a line break is inserted to equalize the number of characters in one line. From, an unnecessary blank string.

Line breaks are removed and only the character strings that make up a sentence or phrase are extracted, so when editing the created text, displaying it on another display system, or searching for words etc. in the created text, Even if you need to edit the text into regular text when using a function that automatically proofreads or translates the text you have created, you can get the editing results without any troublesome operations. This makes it possible to significantly reduce the work burden and improve work efficiency.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an information processing device to which a text data conversion method according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied;
FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operating procedure of the same embodiment, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the storage format of text data in an external storage device, and FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the process of deleting blank character codes. , FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of text data to be processed, and FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a processing result for the text data shown in FIG. IO...Control unit, 20...Program unit, 20a.
...Initialization section, 20b...Data reading section, 20c.
・Blank character code deletion section (blank character code deletion means)
, 20d...Line feed code deletion unit (line feed code deletion means), 3o...Data storage unit, 30a...Line counter buffer, 30b...Manual character position storage buffer, 30c...Output character position rIt storage buffer, 3(
ld...Buffer for storing character string-time, 30e...Buffer for storing character string, 30f...Buffer for character number counter, 30g...Buffer for storing character number counter, 3
0h...Buffer for storing generated character strings, 40...External storage device

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] First text data storage means for storing text data in which character codes of various characters including blank character codes and line feed codes are arranged in a predetermined order; Blank character code deletion means for deleting unnecessary blank character codes from text data; line feed code deletion means for deleting unnecessary line feed codes from text data stored in the text data storage means; and the blank character code deletion means. means, and second text data storage means for storing text data from which blank character codes and line feed codes have been deleted by the line feed code deletion means; A text data conversion method characterized by extracting content-continuous text data from which codes have been deleted.