JPH05266021A - Data retrieving method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To accurately retrieve a desired data area out of a file of large capac ity even with an ambiguous retrieving item. CONSTITUTION:In a preparing/compiling mode of a file of large capacity, the address of an area to be accessed for reference is automatically in an additional file of the large capacity file. Then the data area of the large capacity file that is pointed by the written address is retrieved and displayed on a screen 101 when a retrieving command is received. A deciding standard is inputted by an operator through the screen 101 so as to decide a specific access operation and also decides whether the address should by written in the additional file or not. In such a way, even such data that are so far difficult to be turned into the words and set at an unretrievable position can be retrieved. Furthermore it is possible to retrieve the data at a position where no clue is available at all and also to retrieve the data based on the elapsed time 104 or the application time 105.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data retrieval method for retrieving a desired data location from a large-capacity file created by a data processing device or the like, and in particular, a data retrieval suitable for ambiguous retrieval items. Regarding the method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a desired portion is searched from a file, a character string to be searched is generally input from a keyboard or the like. For example, when it is necessary to create a specification for a patent application with a document creation device and refer to the experimental data written in the specification later, enter a search command and then specify the specific experimental data. A character string (for example, a unit symbol of the data) is input.

Incidentally, as related to the prior art, for example, Hitachi Japanese word processor With me BP-10 / BP-10S
Instruction Manual <Functional Edition> First Edition Issued October 1990,
Published by Hitachi, Ltd.

[0004]

In the above-mentioned conventional technique, it is necessary to input a character string to be searched with a keyboard or to specify a range of the character string with a cursor when searching data. Since the data processing device searches only the same character string as the specified search character string, if the character string to be searched is not exactly remembered, there is a problem that the search cannot be performed. In such a case, it is customary for the operator to input various similar character strings depending on the feeling and repeat the search, which is inconvenient.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a data search method capable of accurately searching a corresponding portion in a file even if the character string to be searched is not remembered accurately.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The above object is to automatically write the address of a location accessed for reference in a file attached to the large-capacity file during creation and editing of the large-capacity file for retrieval. When a command is input, it is achieved by searching the data portion in the large capacity file indicated by the address written in the attached file and displaying it on the screen.

[0007]

[Function] When a character string or the like is searched after creating a large capacity file, the character string or the like is usually accessed many times by scrolling the screen even while the file is being created. is there. Therefore, by writing the address of the location accessed during file creation to the attached file and leaving a file search history, by referring to this, even if only ambiguous memory remains after file creation,
It is possible to search for the desired part.

To determine whether or not the access target is being searched, that is, whether or not the search history is written in the attached file, statistics of time relating to access are taken, the amount of movement of the cursor, the moving direction, etc. are checked. , The access time and the access position in the file are associated with each other, and the operation history is obtained.
For example, if the mouse cursor is moved at a speed higher than the set speed, the data that was moved is written in the attached file as a search target, and if moved at a speed lower than the set speed, it is a normal mouse operation. Therefore, do not write it in the attached file.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a data processing device to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied. This data processing device includes an arithmetic processing device 201, a main storage device 202, and an external storage device 2.
03, an input device 204, and a display device 205,
The application software and utility software (hereinafter collectively referred to as AP) are operated.
When executing the data search method according to the embodiment of the present invention,
The data retrieval method may be incorporated and used as a part of the AP, or the data retrieval method may be made resident in the main storage device 202 in advance, or may be read and executed during the AP operation.

FIG. 1 is a menu screen for prompting the operator to input what kind of operation is to be performed as an access operation for data and to write a judgment standard to be written in the attached file. When the data search method according to the present embodiment is stored in the main storage device in the state of a program, when the predetermined key operation, for example, the F1 key is pressed, the screen of FIG. 1 is displayed on the screen of the display device 205. .. On this screen, the block cursor 102 is moved by using the up and down cursor keys in accordance with the guidance message 109 at the bottom of the screen to set the type of effective automatic search. In this example, a plurality of settings can be duplicated. Hereinafter, some typical items will be described.

(1) Cursor movement 103: When cursor movement is selected, the screen of FIG. 3 is displayed as a submenu screen. Therefore, first, the automatic setting 301 or the manual setting 302 is selected. In case of automatic setting, no further setting is necessary. In case of manual setting, set the contents according to the following items. First, in the cursor movement direction 308, this is because the cursor movement processing (403, FIG. 5) in the automatic search position determination routine (FIG. 4) is performed when the cursor moves laterally during AP operation.
Get up and running. In addition to this,
[Vertical] and [Slanting] can be set using the up and down cursor keys. The next movement amount is 100% when the screen is full, and is approximately 50 at the center of the screen in the horizontal direction.
However, it is possible to give a little width to [50], and the margin ratio is set in the input area 309. If the moving speed 306 is set to [fast], the cursor moving process (403, FIG. 5) in the automatic search position determination routine (FIG. 4) is activated during continuous key input, and [slow]
If so, it starts operation by key input at a time interval corresponding to human key input time. If it is [Both], it starts operating for both.

In the case of automatic setting, the above setting contents are
The movement direction is valid in all three directions, and the movement amount is determined from the one with a large movement amount or the place where the same place is accessed many times as the search position preferentially, and the one with a small movement amount is searched more and more. Try to exclude from the position. For the moving speed, both continuous input and human input modes are valid.

When the setting is completed, press the enter key to
To operate. The automatic search position determination routine starts operating according to each setting when the AP starts operating and the conditions of the setting items are met. FIG. 4 shows a flowchart of the automatic search position determination routine. When the cursor movement is set (step 401), cursor movement processing (step 403) is executed. Similarly, when the elapsed time (step 402) is set, the elapsed time process is executed. In addition to this, if there is an item that is set and registered on the screen of FIG. 1, similar processing is performed.

FIG. 5 shows a procedure of cursor movement processing.
First, it is determined whether the setting is automatic or manual (step 501). After this determination, in the case of manual setting, the set contents are set in a variable in the table (step 5
02), in the case of automatic setting, the contents of automatic setting are set in the variables in the table (step 503). Next, according to this set value, the cursor movement amount counter is incremented by +1 only when applicable (step 506). However, when the control does not enter this routine continuously (that is, when the key does not move in the same direction continuously),
This counter is cleared to 0. After entering this routine several times in succession, the movement amount counter eventually falls within the range of the values set in the input areas 305 and 309 of FIG. At that time, the horizontal continuous key input start point address is registered in the relative position in the search buffer (attached file) (step 508). However, if it exceeds the range, it will be deleted. Similarly, with respect to the movement of the cursor position in the horizontal direction operated on the AP, all that correspond to the setting contents are registered. The registered data is saved as an attached file in the same directory in the same file as the AP at the same timing as the data of the AP (file data being created or edited) is saved.

When searching based on the write data of the attached file, a certain key input (for example, F2 key)
Then, the screen of FIG. 1 is displayed again on the display device. Therefore,
Use the up and down cursor keys to select the item you want to search and press the Enter key. With this execution command, the data processing device searches for the attached file in the same directory as the data file, or if the attached file has not been stored in the memory, the data processing device searches for the relevant location from the currently stored search target storage buffer. The data is read and displayed on the screen of the display device. When displaying, not only the search target but also its front and back are displayed so that the context of the search position can be clearly understood. Therefore, if some correction is made, the corrected portion is automatically taken as a search target as a history. The next time you try to perform a similar search, a new search type will be automatically created in the margin field of the screen shown in Fig. 1. If you select it, the date, time, and content of the correction will be displayed. Key word (noun)
Is displayed, and by selecting it, the correction position can be easily searched again.

(2) Elapsed time 104: With regard to the elapsed time, if this is made effective as a type of search, a page is continuously edited for a long time (depending on the set time), or the same portion is repeated a plurality of times. You can register automatically when accessed. For the implementation method, the setting is made by the same method as the movement of the cursor.

(3) Time of use 105: If the time of use is set on the screen of FIG. 1, the address of the access position is stored in association with the time at a certain fixed time, and the search is actually performed. When you do this, you can specify what time you accessed yesterday, and the contents accessed during a certain time period will be displayed.

(4) Operation history 106: The operation history is shown in FIG.
If you set it on the screen, the contents of the key input for the operation will be saved in the specially prepared buffer for the operation history. The function number of the AP used and the address of the file when using it are linked and memorized, and when searching, if that function is performed again, the position of the file when that function was performed is easy You can search for. When there are a lot of things, I have taken a history, so try going from several functions in a row,
It is also possible to find the position.

(5) Search command 107: When the search command is set on the screen of FIG. 1, the search command prepared in the AP is detected, and when it is executed, it is stored in its own buffer. Also stores the search character string, stores the number of times the search is performed, the number of times one character string used for the search is matched in the same file, etc.
Even when not operating on the above, if you use this device to specify a file name and search, the line number indicating that position,
The contents before and after that can be displayed on the display device. However, since it is difficult to automatically determine which function is assigned to the search command due to the specifications of each AP, it is necessary to register the key input corresponding to the search command.

(6) Registration character string 108: The registration character string is
It is possible to register a character string from the beginning, and perform a search or mark it according to it later to use it as a bookmark.

(7) Others: Character string search with unit When "g" is input as a character string to be searched, all numerical values with units regarding weight are searched and displayed.
As a result, mistakes in numerical values are reduced, and even if corrections occur, a search can be performed easily, and correction errors are reduced.

Further, by inputting "chapter" such as a chapter number when writing a sentence, which is likely to be corrected later, it is possible to search for related chapter numbers "3-4" and "5.7". And can be easily corrected.

[0023]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to search for a position which has been difficult to search because it was difficult to use a word in the past, or to perform a new time-based search. It becomes possible to easily and accurately search for a character string that could not be found without inputting, by using a related one.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a setting screen of a data processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a data processing device to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

3 is a diagram showing a sub-menu screen which is one of the setting valid items on the screen of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of an automatic search position determination routine.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure for moving a cursor in setting items.

[Explanation of symbols]

201 ... Arithmetic processing device, 202 ... Main storage device, 203 ...
External storage device, 204 ... Input device, 205 ... Display device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. When creating or editing a large-capacity file, the address of the location accessed for reference is automatically written in the auxiliary file of the large-capacity file, and when a search command is input, the address is added to the auxiliary file. A data search method characterized in that a data part in a large capacity file indicated by the written address is searched and displayed on a screen.