Delete duplicated expressions with keeping the first one

[Alan Kilborn]

Maybe I’m a rogue but I would hit it with Python or Pythonscript:

new_content = []
flag = 0
d_dict = {}
for line in editor.getCharacterPointer().splitlines():
    line = line.rstrip()
    if flag == 1:
        if not line in d_dict:
            d_dict[line] = 1
            new_content.append('<some thing>')
            new_content.append(line)
        flag = 0
    else:
        if line == '<some thing>':
            flag = 1
        else:
            new_content.append(line)
editor.beginUndoAction()
editor.setText('\r\n'.join(new_content))
editor.endUndoAction()

[Ziad Aborami]

@Alan-Kilborn

Thanks for your suggestion

I got an error while running the script: (win10)

File “D:\script.py”, line 4, in <module>
for line in editor.getCharacterPointer().splitlines():
NameError: name ‘editor’ is not defined

What is the wrong?

[guy038]

Hello, @ziad-aborami,

EDIT on 03/02/19 :
I slightly modified the parts A , B and C, in order to respect the <tr class="content">........</tr> multi-lines blocks structure !

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I did get your e-mail and download your news.txt file of 350,578 lines. This dictionnary file contains 38,783 entries and 8,117 of these entries have duplicate entries, on which a global S/R must occur !

Now, I’m going to give you 3 parts of your file, which contain duplicate entries and just tell me the final text that you expect to, for each of the 3 examples !

Part A, regarding the Abaddon entry, in 3 copies :

<tr class="content">
</>
Abaddon
<div style="margin-left:1em"><span style="color:darkblue"><b>Abaddon - <i>(der)</i></b></span>
Herkunft: hebr.<br><br>Beschreibung:<br>Substantiv<br><br></span>
Abaddon - <i>(der)</i></a>
</td>
<td class="content" width="50%" valign="top">Abgrund</td>
</tr>
<tr class="content">
</>
Abaddon
<div style="margin-left:1em"><span style="color:darkblue"><b>Abaddon - <i>(der)</i></b></span>
Herkunft: hebr.<br><br>Beschreibung:<br>Substantiv<br><br></span>
Abaddon - <i>(der)</i></a>
</td>
<td class="content" width="50%" valign="top">Unterwelt</td>
</tr>
<tr class="content">
</>
Abaddon
<div style="margin-left:1em"><span style="color:darkblue"><b>Abaddon - <i>(der)</i></b></span>
Herkunft: hebr.<br><br>Beschreibung:<br>Substantiv<br><br></span>
Abaddon - <i>(der)</i></a>
</td>
<td class="content" width="50%" valign="top">jüd. Todesengel</td>
</tr>

Part B, regarding the abaissieren entry, in 2 copies :

<tr class="content">
</>
abaissieren
<div style="margin-left:1em"><span style="color:darkblue"><b>abaissieren</b></span>
Herkunft: franz.<br><br>Beschreibung:<br>Verb<br><br></span>
abaissieren</a>
</td>
<td class="content" width="50%" valign="top">demütigen</td>
</tr>
<tr class="content">
</>
abaissieren
<div style="margin-left:1em"><span style="color:darkblue"><b>abaissieren</b></span>
Herkunft: franz.<br><br>Beschreibung:<br>Verb<br><br></span>
abaissieren</a>
</td>
<td class="content" width="50%" valign="top">erniedrigen</td>
</tr>

Part C, regarding the abgeschmackt entry, in 4 copies :

<tr class="content">
</>
abgeschmackt
<div style="margin-left:1em"><span style="color:darkblue"><b>abgeschmackt</b></span> <i class="p" style="color:green"><n></i>
<span><b>banal</b><br>
Herkunft: franz.<br><br>Beschreibung:<br>Adjektiv<br><br>Synonym:<br>abgedroschen, einfach, alltäglich, fade, gewöhnlich</span>
banal</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="content">
</>
abgeschmackt
<div style="margin-left:1em"><span style="color:darkblue"><b>abgeschmackt</b></span> <i class="p" style="color:green"><n></i>
<span><b>fad(e)</b><br>
Herkunft: franz.<br><br>Beschreibung:<br>Adjektiv<br><br>Synonym:<br>abgedroschen, abgegriffen, langweilig, läppisch, ohne Geschmack</span>
fad(e)</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="content">
</>
abgeschmackt
<div style="margin-left:1em"><span style="color:darkblue"><b>abgeschmackt</b></span> <i class="p" style="color:green"><n></i>
<span><b>insipid</b><br>
Herkunft: lat.<br><br>Beschreibung:<br>Adjektiv<br></span>
insipid</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="content">
</>
abgeschmackt
<div style="margin-left:1em"><span style="color:darkblue"><b>abgeschmackt</b></span> <i class="p" style="color:green"><n></i>
<span><b>insipid(e)</b><br>
Herkunft: lat.<br><br>Beschreibung:<br>Adjektiv<br><br>Synonym:<br>albern, schal, töricht, uninteressant</span>
insipid(e)</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="content">
</>
abgeschmackt
<div style="margin-left:1em"><span style="color:darkblue"><b>abgeschmackt</b></span> <i class="p" style="color:green"><n></i>
<span><b>maussade</b><br>
Herkunft: franz.<br><br>Beschreibung:<br>Adjektiv<br><br>Synonym:<br>schal, mürrisch</span>
maussade</a>
</td>
</tr>

In your answer, simply place the expected multi-lines text of each part A, B and C, between the two lines :

~~~html

~~~

I suppose that, with these 3 expected blocks of text, it’ll be enough to determine the right regex ;-))

Cheers,

guy038

[PeterJones]

@Ziad-Aborami said:

NameError: name ‘editor’ is not defined

That’s caused because the editor object was not imported into the python script.

You can add the line

from Npp import *

to the top of the script you got from @Alan-Kilborn. This will define that object for this one script.

Or, if you want it available to all scripts, you can go to Plugins > Python Script > Scripts, then Ctrl+Click on startup, add that line just after the import sys. I also recommend (though it’s not necessary for this) that you also want to use Plugins > Python Script > Configuration…, and change the “Initialisation” setting from LAZY to ATSTARTUP. Then you can save/close startup.py, exit notepad++ and reload. From then on, PythonScript scripts will always have the editor/editor1/editor2/notepad objects available; the ATSTARTUP makes it so that the PythonScript initialization happens right away, which is useful if you’ve got python-scripts adding callback hooks or similar. (This is the setup I use.)

[Ziad Aborami]

@PeterJones
Thanks for help.
I have got:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘Npp’

I have added from Npp import * to the first line

[Ziad Aborami]

@guy038
Thanks again!
I appreciate your help so much!

[PeterJones]

@Ziad-Aborami said:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘Npp’

Out of curiosity: are you using the PythonScript plugin in Notepad++, or are you using a normal python interpreter, running it with python.exe, python2.exe, or python3.exe? it needs to be using PythonScript plugin in order for this to work.

Also, where did you save the script that @Alan-Kilborn provided? The right way is to go to Plugins > Python Script > New Script, then give it a name (such as YourNameHere.py) in the directory that it defaults to. You then run the script using the Plugins > Python Script > Scripts > YourNameHere. For example, here’s a Hello World

from Npp import *
console.show()
console.write("Hello World")

I created the file as helloWorld.py using the above sequence, pasted in that text, then ran Plugins > Python Script > Scripts > helloWorld. This displayed Hello World in the PythonScript console sub-window in Notepad++.

[Alan Kilborn]

Regarding the import error with the Pythonscript presented. My bad, but I refuse to be bothered with putting those standard imports at the top of every script I ever do (thus I forget about it when posting scripts). I make sure (one time) they are in my startup.py and then I forget about it. Maybe the Pythonscript implementers should consider adding those imports at the top of a file when the New Script option is chosen from the Pythonscript menus.

[Ziad Aborami]

@Alan-Kilborn @PeterJones
Thanks so much, the python method works well!

@PeterJones
I was running the python from cmd with python.exe
I have created a new script and save it in Notepad++ scripts
When I have run it from scripts in Notepad++, it has worked well in 2 seconds without lagging.
Finally the problem was solved!

[Ekopalypse]

It is only needed to import from Npp if the current file isn’t the main file executed.
Like if you create a module or package.

[guy038]

Hi, @ziad-aborami, and All,

While waiting for your post, I noticed some errors in your file ! Not a lot : only 7 :-))

Here are the corrections, to be made to your new.txt file that you attach to your e-mail. These modifications are listed, in reverse order, in order to not change the numbering during the manual modifications !

• First this simple change to respect the <tr class="content">........</tr> multi-lines block, for each entry

  • Add a line <tr class="content">, before the first line of your file

  • Save your file, which is, now, 350,579 lines long

• Then, here are the 7 modifications to do :

  • Add the line <tr class="content">, BEFORE the line 346,171 ( </> )

  • Change the entire line 346,149 ( <tr class>“content”> ) into the line <tr class="content">

  • Change the entire line 343,625 ( </> ) into the <tr class="content">

  • Add the line </tr>, AFTER the line 250,404 ( <td class=“content” width=“50%” valign=“top”>Herabsetzung</td> )

  • Add the two lines <tr class="content"> and </>, BEFORE the line 250,399 ( Rabaisssement )

  • Add the line <tr class="content">, BEFORE the line 48,800 ( </> )

  • Add the line </tr>, AFTER the line 48,799 ( </td> )

Your file should be, now, 350,585 lines long

If you count the number of its <tr class="content">........</tr> multi-lines blocks, with the regex, below :

SEARCXH (?-s)^<tr class="content">\R</>\R(?s).+?</tr>

You should get 38784 blocks or entries, in your German-German dictionary !

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Although, I haven’t got any clue about the exact text that you would like to keep, let’s me give it a blind try !

I’m starting with the file being modified, as above !

Now :

• Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

• SEARCH (?i-s)^(<tr class="content">\R</>\R(.+)\R(?:.+\R){4,70}?)</tr>\R<tr class="content">\R</>\R\2\R

• REPLACE \1</>\r\n

• Check the Wrap around option and/or move to the very beginning of your file

• Select the Regular expression search mode

• Click on the Replace All button, repeatedly, till the message Replace All: 0 occurrences were replaced occurs, at bottom of the dialog

Hence, the results :

After a 1ST click on the "Replace All" button  =>  10,583 replacements done, in 12s
After a 2ND click on the "Replace All" button  =>   4,119 replacements done, in 12s
After a 3RD click on the "Replace All" button  =>     912 replacements done, in 11s

But the 4th replacement was incorrect ! It said 2 replacements but, actually, only the first was OK, as the second wrongly selects all file contents :-((. So I went back, one step, with Ctrl + Z

Then I marked all remaining entries of dictionary and place them in a new tab. After detecting the duplicates entries and deleting the others, it remained 20 entries, in 2 or 3 copies, listed below :

Abischnitt			Abischnitt
Erneuerung			Erneuerung
großartig			großartig
hervorragend		hervorragend
Muster				Muster
Verbindung			Verbindung
vornehm				vornehm
Vorrang				Vorrang
Wiederherstellung	Wiederherstellung
Überbleibsel		Überbleibsel
Übereinstimmung		Übereinstimmung			Übereinstimmung
Überlegenheit		Überlegenheit
Überlegung			Überlegung
übereinstimmen		übereinstimmen			übereinstimmen
übereinstimmend		übereinstimmend			übereinstimmend
überlegen			überlegen				überlegen
übersinnlich		übersinnlich	
überspannt			überspannt
übertrieben			übertrieben
üppig				üppig

Finally, for each of these 20 entries, I simply changed the lines :

</td>
</tr>
<tr class="content">
</>
üppig
<div style="margin-left:1em"><span style="color:darkblue"><b>üppig</b></span> <i class="p" style="color:green"><n></i>

as below :

</td>
</>
<div style="margin-left:1em"><span style="color:darkblue"><b>üppig</b></span> <i class="p" style="color:green"><n></i>

Best Regards,

guy038

IMPORTANT :

My first attempt of the search regex, against the corrected file, was :

SEARCH (?-s)^(<tr class="content">\R</>\R(.+)\R(?s).+?)</tr>\R<tr class="content">\R</>\R\2\R

But it did not work at all ! It just modified 8 entries and wrongly selected all the file contents, at the end !

Then, I decided to omit the smallest range of characters (?s).+?) between the entry (.+)\R and the closing tag </tr> and to replace it with the syntax (?:.+\R)+?, which grabs the smallest range of non-empty lines, in a non-capturing group, giving the regex :

SEARCH (?-s)^(<tr class="content">\R</>\R(.+)\R(?:.+\R)+?)</tr>\R<tr class="content">\R</>\R\2\R

It was even worse ! This time, I just got 1 result : the whole file contents, again :-((

Then, I verified how many lines was located after an entry, till the nearest </tr> closing tag. And it happens that this initial range is between 4 and 11 lines. However, as the goal is to gather duplicates entries, after some replacements, it would increase the size of all the multi-lines areas <tr class="content">...........</tr> !

So I decided of a compromise, using the range {4,70}, in the search regex below, which detects and replaces, correctly, 99,9% of all the occurrences, with a manual modification of 20 entries, only :-))

SEARCH (?i-s)^(<tr class="content">\R</>\R(.+)\R(?:.+\R){4,70}?)</tr>\R<tr class="content">\R</>\R\2\R

The initial file, of 350585 lines long, which contained 38,784 entries, whose some of them were duplicates, now contains 23,146 uniques entries, for 303,669 lines, only !

[Ziad Aborami]

@guy038
Thanks so much!
I have fixed the errors.
The command of replacment worked fine!
Thanks a lot for your time
You are generous!