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    • Claudia FrankC
      Claudia Frank
      last edited by

      me too - that is actually the latest one available for ubuntu.

      Cheers
      Claudia

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      • patrickdrdP
        patrickdrd
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        so the issue is: which result is the correct?

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        • guy038G
          guy038
          last edited by guy038

          Hello, @patrickdrd, and All,

          First of all, I quite pleased to be back on our N++ forum ! Indeed, I was away because of a general failure of my laptop hard drive C:, which, you could imagine, highly annoyed me and needed immediate care :-(((

          So, after more than a week, a software purchase of EaseUS Recovery Wizard to restore my data ( the only one which could identify all my files, although Windows could not see the C: partition ), the fact that my first 32 Gb USB key did not work, either, ( Windows cannot format it !!), the re-install of the system on an other hard-disk, the Services Pack, the .NET versions, the different updates, some software installations and the total re-organization of my data structure, I can, now, close that bloody sub-routine !! ( Just note that, if I haven’t been able to get all my files back, I still had a last general backup, performed on the 04/13/18 )


          Now, @patrickdrd, you said, in a post above :

          guy038 regular expression results in 28109 lines

          So, I download the list, from your link, in a new N++ tab :

          https://easylist.to/easylist/easylist.txt

          Notice that I, personally, found 69889 lines

          Now, without any change on that text, I simply performed a sort with the N++ command Edit > Line Operations > Sort Lines Lexicographically Ascending, on that raw text

          Then, I used the regex S/R, that I spoke in my previous post :

          SEARCH : (?-s)(^.+\R)\1+

          REPLACE : \1

          I obtained a file of 69790 lines => The difference of 99 lines ( the duplicate ones ) were suppressed, almost immediately !

          So, may be, I’m missing something ?

          Cheers,

          guy038

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          • patrickdrdP
            patrickdrd
            last edited by

            I can’t say for sure, is there any tool that can tell us how many the unique lines are?

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            • Claudia FrankC
              Claudia Frank
              last edited by Claudia Frank

              Ok - the difference of the total amount of lines in TextFX /python and regex
              can be explained, the different usage of caseing(not sure if this is the right word).

              Regex search/replace is insensitive whereas python script is sensitive.
              Once we use the same, the result is the same.

              For the provided example list, I assume, insensitive search and deletion is ok
              but for other cases, sensitive search/replaces might be important.

              Btw. I also used sort and uniq command line tools from linux with same results as python and regex.

              Cheers
              Claudia

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              • patrickdrdP
                patrickdrd
                last edited by

                thanks for clarifying, in terms of speed?

                can python script be made to ignore case?

                I want to ignore case and I want it fast (useful for large files) too

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                • patrickdrdP
                  patrickdrd
                  last edited by patrickdrd

                  these are my settings:
                  https://i.imgur.com/AYmj5I4.jpg

                  and my version:
                  https://i.imgur.com/YRdLkSl.png

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                  • Scott SumnerS
                    Scott Sumner @patrickdrd
                    last edited by

                    @patrickdrd

                    can python script be made to ignore case?

                    yes

                    I want to ignore case

                    Understood! :-D

                    and I want it fast (useful for large files) too

                    Ok, so what is “fast”? PS is in general going to be slower than some other methods, but unless you sort “large files”–also not well defined-- constantly why is speed all that important?

                    As an example, I took @Claudia-Frank 's PS one-liner above and ran it on the “easylist” data file, and for me it took 3.94 seconds…would that be defined as “fast” or “slow” or…?

                    And on the topic of “large” files, when you get too large (which honestly isn’t really big) you get into trouble with Notepad++ itself dealing with the files…

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                    • Claudia FrankC
                      Claudia Frank @patrickdrd
                      last edited by

                      @patrickdrd

                      yes, with python we could do almost everything :-D

                      Is it important to keep the original lines untouched?
                      I mean, having two lines like

                      Test_line_content
                      test_Line_content
                      

                      could result in either

                      test_line_content
                      

                      or

                      Test_line_content
                      

                      I will post a performance optimized script later today.

                      Cheers
                      Claudia

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                      • patrickdrdP
                        patrickdrd @Scott Sumner
                        last edited by

                        @Scott-Sumner said:

                        @patrickdrd

                        can python script be made to ignore case?

                        yes

                        I want to ignore case

                        Understood! :-D

                        and I want it fast (useful for large files) too

                        Ok, so what is “fast”? PS is in general going to be slower than some other methods, but unless you sort “large files”–also not well defined-- constantly why is speed all that important?

                        As an example, I took @Claudia-Frank 's PS one-liner above and ran it on the “easylist” data file, and for me it took 3.94 seconds…would that be defined as “fast” or “slow” or…?

                        And on the topic of “large” files, when you get too large (which honestly isn’t really big) you get into trouble with Notepad++ itself dealing with the files…

                        3.94 for a 60k lines file is ok,
                        I mean I show much more time needed, if I remember correctly it should be with regular expressions

                        sorting is ok too, I want them sorted each time, if that’s what you ask scott

                        @claudia, if possible, make them “accent insensitive” too

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                        • Claudia FrankC
                          Claudia Frank
                          last edited by

                          @Patrick

                          sorry, don’t know the term “accent insensitive” , what does it mean?
                          For example that è is the same as e?

                          Can you provide example data (just need a couple of lines) to see if it is working correctly?
                          The speed test I will do with the easylist text.

                          Cheers
                          Claudia

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                          • Scott SumnerS
                            Scott Sumner
                            last edited by

                            I can envision the following specification for a general purpose script (goes beyond what @patrickdrd has asked for):

                            • sort lines case sensitive, keep duplicate lines
                            • sort lines case sensitive, remove duplicate lines
                            • sort lines case sensitive, keep duplicate lines, reverse order on the sort
                            • sort lines case sensitive, remove duplicate lines, reverse order on the sort
                            • sort lines case insensitive, keep duplicate lines
                            • sort lines case insensitive, remove duplicate lines
                            • sort lines case insensitive, keep duplicate lines, reverse order on the sort
                            • sort lines case insensitive, remove duplicate lines, reverse order on the sort
                            • no sort, remove duplicate lines (case sensitive)
                            • no sort, remove duplicate lines (case insensitive)

                            A selection active when invoking should define:

                            • lines to be affected (only those touched by selection vertically); act on all lines if no selection
                            • columns to be used as the sort key (if rectangular selection use the selected columns as the sort key; if zero-width rect selection consider the key to start at the selection column out to the end of the variable-length lines)

                            Probably I’ve forgotten something important to this “sort” of thing…

                            :-D

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                            • patrickdrdP
                              patrickdrd @Claudia Frank
                              last edited by

                              @Claudia-Frank said:

                              @Patrick

                              sorry, don’t know the term “accent insensitive” , what does it mean?
                              For example that è is the same as e?

                              Can you provide example data (just need a couple of lines) to see if it is working correctly?
                              The speed test I will do with the easylist text.

                              Cheers
                              Claudia

                              yes, exactly that

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                              • Claudia FrankC
                                Claudia Frank
                                last edited by

                                OK - let’s see what we can do.

                                Cheers
                                Claudia

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                                • Scott SumnerS
                                  Scott Sumner @Scott Sumner
                                  last edited by

                                  @Scott-Sumner

                                  …the following spec…

                                  Hey Scott! You did forget some things! How about when removing duplicates, we need the options to:

                                  • keep one occurrence of a duplicated line (when sorting)
                                  • keep no occurrences of a duplicated line (when sorting or not sorting)
                                  • keep LAST occurrence of a duplicated line (when not sorting)
                                  • keep FIRST occurrence of a duplicated line (when not sorting)
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                                  • Claudia FrankC
                                    Claudia Frank @Scott Sumner
                                    last edited by

                                    @Scott-Sumner

                                    ahh - sorry too late - specs already defined for version 1 you need to open a feature request for version 2 :-D

                                    Cheers
                                    Claudia

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                                    • Claudia FrankC
                                      Claudia Frank
                                      last edited by Claudia Frank

                                      You can find the 1st version of the script here.

                                      In order to make it run there are two requirements, apart from the obvious one that you need to have python script plugin installed, which needs to be full-filled.

                                      1.) be sue you have either installed the full package or download and unzip the TclTk into the NPP_INSTALL_DIR. Latest releases

                                      2.) in order to make the “accent insensitive” feature working it is needed to install a python library called unidecode.
                                      Unzip the .whl package into NPP_INSTALL_DIR\plugins\lib\

                                      To check both requirements, open the python script console and do the following commands

                                       import Tkinter
                                       import unidecode
                                      

                                      If you don’t see any errors - done.
                                      Usage is simple - run the script and check the different options.

                                      What should work is

                                      • sort/delete duplicates on whole text (aka nothing is selected)
                                      • sort/delete duplicates on vertically selected text

                                      not supported yet:

                                      • sort/delete duplicates on rectangular selection

                                      Cheers
                                      Claudia

                                      Btw. I spent most of the time creating this ugly window - so if someone wants to create a nicer gui - please go for it. I’m not really good in designing UIs.

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                                      • patrickdrdP
                                        patrickdrd
                                        last edited by

                                        tkinter doesn’t work:

                                        Python 2.7.6-notepad++ r2 (default, Apr 21 2014, 19:26:54) [MSC v.1600 32 bit (Intel)]
                                        Initialisation took 219ms
                                        Ready.

                                        import Tkinter
                                        Traceback (most recent call last):
                                        File “<console>”, line 1, in <module>
                                        ImportError: No module named Tkinter
                                        Traceback (most recent call last):
                                        File “D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\scripts\Sorter.py”, line 5, in <module>
                                        import Tkinter as tk
                                        ImportError: No module named Tkinter

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                                        • patrickdrdP
                                          patrickdrd
                                          last edited by

                                          I found out something else, about that easylist file,
                                          textfx’s case insensitive sort results in 69234 entries,
                                          which is the same as ue’s result!

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                                          • guy038G
                                            guy038
                                            last edited by guy038

                                            Hello, @patrickdrd, and All,

                                            Well, I must complete my previous post !

                                            • Firstly, I realized that your list, below, is constantly updated ( Last modified: 02 Jun 2018 08:09 UTC )

                                            https://easylist.to/easylist/easylist.txt

                                            So, today, this list contains 69917 lines


                                            • Secondly, when performing the regex S/R, we must consider, both, sensitive and insensitive search => The two search regexes :

                                            Regex A : (?-is)(^.+\R)\1+

                                            Regex B : (?i-s)(^.+\R)\1+

                                            give, after sorting and removing duplicates with the regex, a file containing :

                                            A 69852 lines ( so, 65 lines deleted, in 56 matches )

                                            B 69817 lines ( so, 100 lines deleted, in 88 matches )


                                            • Thirdly, we, also, must take in account the possibility that the sort, itself, is run in a sensitive or insensitive way !

                                            Natively, Notepad++ sort text, according to the Unicode value ( code-point ) of characters ( a kind of sensitive sort ! ) whereas some other text editors may consider these two case options, leading to different results !

                                            For instance, using the RJ TextEd software, here are the differences with a simple list of three-characters strings ( 1 x ‘ABC’, 2 x ‘AbC’, 3 x ‘Abc’,1 x ‘DEF’, 3 x ‘DEf’, 2 x ‘aBC’, 3 x ‘aBc’, 3 x ‘dEF’ and 3 x ‘def’ )

                                                            •-----------------------•---------------------------•
                                                            |    with Notepad++     |      with RJ TextEd       |
                                            •---------------•-----------------------•---------------------------•
                                            |  Before Sort  |  After UNICODE Sort   |   After SENSITIVE Sort    |
                                            •---------------•-----------------------•---------------------------•
                                            |      Abc      |          ABC          |            AbC            |
                                            |      Abc      |          AbC          |            aBC            |
                                            |      DEf      |          AbC          |            aBc            |
                                            |      AbC      |          Abc          |            Abc            |
                                            |      aBc      |          Abc          |            ABC            |
                                            |      dEF      |          Abc          |            aBC            |
                                            |      aBc      |          DEF          |            Abc            |
                                            |      DEf      |          DEf          |            AbC            |
                                            |      aBC      |          DEf          |            aBc            |
                                            |      def      |          DEf          |            aBc            |
                                            |      AbC      |          aBC          |            Abc            |
                                            |      def      |          aBC          |            DEf            |
                                            |      def      |          aBc          |            dEF            |
                                            |      ABC      |          aBc          |            dEF            |
                                            |      Abc      |          aBc          |            DEf            |
                                            |      DEF      |          dEF          |            dEF            |
                                            |      aBc      |          dEF          |            DEf            |
                                            |      dEF      |          dEF          |            def            |
                                            |      dEF      |          def          |            DEF            |
                                            |      DEf      |          def          |            def            |
                                            |      aBC      |          def          |            def            |
                                            •---------------•-----------------------•---------------------------•
                                            

                                            So, it’s easy to understand that removing consecutive duplicates, after the sort, with the regexes above, will, necessarily, give results totally different, depending of the software used :-(


                                            • Fourthly, sort may give different results, after being run several times, one after another. For instance, with RJ TextEd, running 6 times the insensitive sort on the 3 character list above, I was left with 3 sets of data ( 4 times, identical to the sensitive sort and two other lists !! Luckily, as for Notepad++, its Unicode sort always give identical results :-))

                                            That’s why, @patrickdrd, it’s very difficult, finally, to compare results between different softwares, at each piece have its own behavior !

                                            Cheers,

                                            guy038

                                            P.S. :

                                            Here are the results of my tests :

                                            1) With Notepad++ and RJ TextEd, using sensitive sort :

                                            •---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------•
                                            |                                      with Notepad++ Features                                      |
                                            •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------•
                                            |  Before Sort  |  After Sensitive Sort   |  After Sensitive Regex +  |  After INsensitive Regex +  |
                                            |               |                         |  Suppression Duplicates   |   Suppression Duplicates    |
                                            •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------•
                                            |      Abc      |           ABC           |            ABC            |             ABC             |
                                            |      Abc      |           AbC           |            AbC            |             DEF             |
                                            |      DEf      |           AbC           |            Abc            |             aBC             |
                                            |      AbC      |           Abc           |            DEF            |             dEF             |
                                            |      aBc      |           Abc           |            DEf            |                             |
                                            |      dEF      |           Abc           |            aBC            |                             |
                                            |      aBc      |           DEF           |            aBc            |                             |
                                            |      DEf      |           DEf           |            dEF            |                             |
                                            |      aBC      |           DEf           |            def            |                             |
                                            |      def      |           DEf           |                           |                             |
                                            |      AbC      |           aBC           |                           |                             |
                                            |      def      |           aBC           |                           |                             |
                                            |      def      |           aBc           |                           |                             |
                                            |      ABC      |           aBc           |                           |                             |
                                            |      Abc      |           aBc           |                           |                             |
                                            |      DEF      |           dEF           |                           |                             |
                                            |      aBc      |           dEF           |                           |                             |
                                            |      dEF      |           dEF           |                           |                             |
                                            |      dEF      |           def           |                           |                             |
                                            |      DEf      |           def           |                           |                             |
                                            |      aBC      |           def           |                           |                             |
                                            •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------•
                                            
                                            
                                            •---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------•
                                            |                                       with RJ TextEd Features                                     |
                                            •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------•
                                            |  Before Sort  |  After Sensitive Sort   |  After Sensitive Regex +  |  After INsensitive Regex +  |
                                            |               |                         |  Suppression Duplicates   |   Suppression Duplicates    |
                                            •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------•
                                            |      Abc      |           AbC           |            AbC            |             AbC             |
                                            |      Abc      |           aBC           |            aBC            |             DEf             |
                                            |      DEf      |           aBc           |            aBc            |                             |
                                            |      AbC      |           Abc           |            Abc            |                             |
                                            |      aBc      |           ABC           |            ABC            |                             |
                                            |      dEF      |           aBC           |            aBC            |                             |
                                            |      aBc      |           Abc           |            Abc            |                             |
                                            |      DEf      |           AbC           |            AbC            |                             |
                                            |      aBC      |           aBc           |            aBc            |                             |
                                            |      def      |           aBc           |            Abc            |                             |
                                            |      AbC      |           Abc           |            DEf            |                             |
                                            |      def      |           DEf           |            dEF            |                             |
                                            |      def      |           dEF           |            DEf            |                             |
                                            |      ABC      |           dEF           |            dEF            |                             |
                                            |      Abc      |           DEf           |            DEf            |                             |
                                            |      DEF      |           dEF           |            def            |                             |
                                            |      aBc      |           DEf           |            DEF            |                             |
                                            |      dEF      |           def           |            def            |                             |
                                            |      dEF      |           DEF           |                           |                             |
                                            |      DEf      |           def           |                           |                             |
                                            |      aBC      |           def           |                           |                             |
                                            •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------•
                                            

                                            2) When running, several times, an insensitive sort, with RJ TextEd, I obtained 3 different lists :

                                            • The first one was identical to the table just above, which uses a sensitive sort

                                            • The two others are listed below !

                                            •---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------•
                                            |                                       with RJ TextEd Features                                     |
                                            •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------•
                                            |  Before Sort  |  After INsensitive Sort |  After Sensitive Regex +  |  After INsensitive Regex +  |
                                            |               |                         |  Suppression Duplicates   |   Suppression Duplicates    |
                                            •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------•
                                            |      Abc      |          ABC            |            ABC            |             ABC             |
                                            |      Abc      |          AbC            |            AbC            |             dEF             |
                                            |      DEf      |          aBC            |            aBC            |                             |
                                            |      AbC      |          aBC            |            aBc            |                             |
                                            |      aBc      |          aBc            |            Abc            |                             |
                                            |      dEF      |          Abc            |            AbC            |                             |
                                            |      aBc      |          AbC            |            aBc            |                             |
                                            |      DEf      |          aBc            |            Abc            |                             |
                                            |      aBC      |          Abc            |            aBc            |                             |
                                            |      def      |          Abc            |            dEF            |                             |
                                            |      AbC      |          aBc            |            DEf            |                             |
                                            |      def      |          dEF            |            def            |                             |
                                            |      def      |          dEF            |            dEF            |                             |
                                            |      ABC      |          DEf            |            DEF            |                             |
                                            |      Abc      |          DEf            |            def            |                             |
                                            |      DEF      |          DEf            |                           |                             |
                                            |      aBc      |          def            |                           |                             |
                                            |      dEF      |          def            |                           |                             |
                                            |      dEF      |          dEF            |                           |                             |
                                            |      DEf      |          DEF            |                           |                             |
                                            |      aBC      |          def            |                           |                             |
                                            •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------•
                                            
                                            
                                            •---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------•
                                            |                                       with RJ TextEd Features                                     |
                                            •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------•
                                            |  Before Sort  |  After INsensitive Sort |  After Sensitive Regex +  |  After INsensitive Regex +  |
                                            |               |                         |  Suppression Duplicates   |   Suppression Duplicates    |
                                            •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------•
                                            |      Abc      |          ABC            |           ABC             |            ABC              |
                                            |      Abc      |          AbC            |           AbC             |            dEF              |
                                            |      DEf      |          aBC            |           aBC             |                             |
                                            |      AbC      |          aBC            |           aBc             |                             |
                                            |      aBc      |          aBc            |           Abc             |                             |
                                            |      dEF      |          Abc            |           aBc             |                             |
                                            |      aBc      |          aBc            |           AbC             |                             |
                                            |      DEf      |          AbC            |           Abc             |                             |
                                            |      aBC      |          Abc            |           aBc             |                             |
                                            |      def      |          Abc            |           dEF             |                             |
                                            |      AbC      |          aBc            |           DEf             |                             |
                                            |      def      |          dEF            |           def             |                             |
                                            |      def      |          dEF            |           DEF             |                             |
                                            |      ABC      |          dEF            |           DEf             |                             |
                                            |      Abc      |          DEf            |                           |                             |
                                            |      DEF      |          DEf            |                           |                             |
                                            |      aBc      |          def            |                           |                             |
                                            |      dEF      |          def            |                           |                             |
                                            |      dEF      |          def            |                           |                             |
                                            |      DEf      |          DEF            |                           |                             |
                                            |      aBC      |          DEf            |                           |                             |
                                            •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------•
                                            
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