Splitter 1.3 build: 9470 released: 2008-03-21

Split text/html files into smaller files.

Copyright: (c) 2012 Canadian Mind Products.

Java application.
Download from: http://mindprod.com/products1.html#SPLITTER

===> Free <===
Full source included.
You may even include the source code, modified or unmodified
in free/commercial open source/proprietary programs that you write and distribute.
May be used freely for any purpose but military.
For more details on this restriction, see
http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html
If you include any Canadian Mind Products code in your own applications,
your app too must be labeled non-military use only.
All Java jars and source code are included.

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Prerequisites:

This program runs under any OS,
(e.g. Win2K/XP/Vista/W7x86/W7-64/OSX/Linux/Solaris/AIX...) so long as you have
<><> Java version 1.5 <><> or later installed (32-bit or 64-bit Java).
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html for details.

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Installing on a PC:

Download source and compiled class files to run on your own machine as an application.
First install a recent Java JDK or JVM.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html.
To install, extract the zip download with WinZip
(or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please,
often J:\ --  ticking off the "use folder names" option.
To run as an application,type:
java -ea -jar J:\com\mindprod\splitter\splitter.jar {put any parms here}

adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.

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Installing on a MacIntosh:

Use Safari to download source and compiled class files to run on your own machine as an application.
Safari will automatically unpack the zip into ~/Downloads (version 10.5)
[or on the Desktop (version 10.4 and earlier)].
First install a recent Java JDK or JVM.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html.
You may optionally move the download tree to a permanent home.
I don't have a MacIntosh, just a PC, so I can't test my Java programs for Mac compatibility.
In theory they should work without problems, but in practice that does not always happen.
If you have problems please, let me know, preferably with screenshots and complete verbatim error messages.
To run as an application, without parameters, just double click the jar file.

To run as an application with parameters, in bash shell type:
open Terminal.app
cd ~/Desktop
java -ea -jar com/mindprod/splitter/splitter.jar {put any parms here}

adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.

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Rebuilding:

The zip already contains the necessary class and jar files, so unless you modify
the program, there is no need to recompile the source or rebuild the jar.
Configure.java basedir="E:/" in rebuild.xml to the drive where your files are.
Use ANT and rebuild.xml, not build.xml, to recompile and recreate the jar.

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Use:

Split large text/html files into smaller files. I find it
much faster and more accurate than cut and paste.

You embed commands in the big file telling it which pieces
of it are to go where, then let Splitter do the work. It is
much faster and more accurate than trying to select huge
blocks of text in an editor. You don't accidentally lose or
duplicate text.  Keeping files small makes the site more
responsive.

You embed multiple <split tags in the file to be split of
the form:

<split charlie.html>
...
stuff that will end up in the charlie.html file.
...
</split>

The text between the <split xxx> and </split> tags is split
off into that named file and the text is removed from the
original file along with the tags. The tags are
case-insensitive, so you can use upper or lower case.

1. Filenames may be absolute or relative, with no quotes or spaces.

2. Tags may be nested, but they must balance (equal number
of <split xxx> and </split>).

3. Tags are case-insensitive, i.e. may be lower or upper case.

4. Multiple <split xxx> tags may be directed to the same
file, where they will be appended.

5. If the files mentioned in the split tags already exist,
they will be overwritten.

6. Anything not inside <split xxx>...</split> is retained in
the original file. Everything else is removed.

7. To discard text, use <split temp.txt>...</split> then
when you are done discard the generated temp.txt file.

The file being split must be small enough to fit in RAM.
Java array addressing limits the file to 2GB, though other
considerations mean in practice the largest file you can
handle will be smaller still.

To install, Extract the zip download with WinZip, available from
http://www.winzip.com (or similar unzip utility) into any
directory you please, often C:\ -- ticking off the "user
folder names" option. To run as an application, type:

java -jar E:\com\mindprod\splitter\splitter.jar  x.html

adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.
where x.html is the file to be split containing the embedded
split commands.

You may process files not encoded with the default encoding by adding
the encoding to the end of the command line, e.g.

java -jar E:\com\mindprod\splitter\splitter.jar  x.html UTF-8

For details on possible encodings and how to tell which
encoding a file is using, see
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/encoding.html

Why the axe icon? It symbolises splitting a file up into
smaller pieces.


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Version History:

 1.1 2006-03-05 reformat with IntelliJ, add Javadoc

 1.2 2007-05-22 add PAD and icon. Tidy with IntelliJ inspector.

 1.3 2008-03-21 allow user to specify the encoding.

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