Re: [Gnumed-devel] Finally ... monocomponent and multicomponent drug lists for Brazil

[Rogerio Luz Coelho]

Ok my first reaction was "outch" ;)

I believe that all the work to do will not be "auto-"reproducible with every update. You should try to find a better raw source.

I don't need it to be automated for future updates (there maybe could be a diff script to do this, and if not there is always the manual way - I can live with that). 

 

If you want to work with this source, I think that the best thing to do is to extract all distinct forms (by-hand), create a table with them, translate them in english (so that any non-spanish speakers can understand the content and help).
Then we should be able to "guess" the strength of the component (only for unique component drugs).

"any non-portuguese speakers" is more correct ;) ... but I get where you are going

 

If you want to split strength and form, you will have find a "generic rule" for each form.

1) extract all available forms & expand abbrev./translate

2) ping back

This I can do ... LibreOffice is great at localize/substitute with reproductibility via macro recording ... I do this on other files already :))  

R.