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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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                                  • Claudia FrankC
                                    Claudia Frank
                                    last edited by

                                    Patrick, did you downlaod and unzip the TclTk into the
                                    NPP_INSTALL_DIR ? (in your case into D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++)

                                    If so, can you run the following in the python script console

                                    import sys; print '\n'.join(sys.path) 
                                    

                                    and post the output?

                                    Did the unidecode library installation work?

                                    Cheers
                                    Claudia

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                                    • Scott SumnerS
                                      Scott Sumner @patrickdrd
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                                      • patrickdrdP
                                        patrickdrd
                                        last edited by

                                        yes, unidecode works fine, import command works

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                                        • Claudia FrankC
                                          Claudia Frank @patrickdrd
                                          last edited by

                                          @patrickdrd

                                          what does the sys.path report?

                                          Cheers
                                          Claudia

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                                          • patrickdrdP
                                            patrickdrd
                                            last edited by

                                            D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\lib
                                            D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\plugins\Config\PythonScript\lib
                                            D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\scripts
                                            D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\plugins\Config\PythonScript\scripts
                                            D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\lib\lib-tk
                                            D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\python27.zip
                                            D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\DLLs
                                            D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\lib
                                            D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\lib\plat-win
                                            D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\lib\lib-tk
                                            D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++

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