For a project, I need to get some word definitions in a database. All the definitions can be found on multiple DB files, but the DB files that I got are for a C language program and are in the form of ASCII (I believe). I need to somehow phrase thorough the files, line by line add the data into a MySQL database.
I would prefer using PHP and/or MySQL.
I tried writing a PHP script to go through and do it, but it timed-out and is intensive on my system and in most cases don't complete.
I heard about LOAD DATA INFILE from MySQL but have no clue how to use it with this.
The file names change for each file and do not have a specific extension, however, all of them can be read from a text file, and I am sure they are all the same in terms of content.
I uploaded the contents of one file here.
You can see that some lines are useless, but the lines starting with { are good and the pattern is essentially the first word is the dictionary term, and the content within () are the definitions. The parts within the "" are sample sentences.
All I need to extract are the terms, definitions and sentences.
The definitions are provided by Princeton University and the license is open source (and I will be crediting them).
