SortSRS 1.6 build: 9639 released: 2012-11-13 compiled with: Java 1.8.0_131 Jet jet12.0-pro-x86/1.8.0_131

Sorts/DeDups Funduc Search/Replace *.srs Scripts.

Java application.
Download from: http://mindprod.com/products2.html#SORTSRS

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Notes:

You must install the Java JRE to use this program.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss/jre.html

This program can only be used from the command prompt, (or via an command
line style icon shortcut) e.g. under Windows command.exe or JPSoft
tcmd.exe, formerly called the DOS box. Just clicking the programs in a
directory listing will not do anything useful. Just typing the program
names at the command prompt will not either.

This program requires a manual install! See below.

This program works with vanilla text files, (e.g. ASCII files or UTF-8
Unicode files). You will need a text editor to create and view them, not a word
processor. e.g. notepad, Visual Slick Edit or other suitable text editor
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/editor.html. You must use a monospaced font
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/monospacedfonts.html (aka fixed pitch, aka
programmer font) to view your files, or they won't look properly aligned.

I put out an avalanche of free software into the world, and submit PAD
files to hundreds of distribution sites, but I rarely hear back from
anyone. What's happening? Does it all just work fine? It is so
complicated nobody can figure out how to use it and they give up on it?
It is it useful? Since everyone has the source, do people just fix the
programs to their liking themselves? Did you have trouble installing? Do
I presume you know too much? I would be happy to hear from you about your
experiences, positive or negative and your requests for improvements. A
one-line email to roedy@mindprod.com would be great.

===> 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 labelled non-military use only.
http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html
All Java jars and source code are included. If you need the class files or Javadoc, you will have to build them yourself. To streamline the zip downloads, class files and Javadoc have been removed.

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Prerequisites:

This program runs under any OS that supports Java,
(e.g.W2K/XP/W2003/Vista/W2008/W7-32/W7-64/W8-32/W8-64/Linux/LinuxARM/LinuxX86
/LinuxX64/Ubuntu/Solaris/SolarisSPARC/SolarisSPARC64/SolarisX86/SolarisX64/OSX/AIX...)
so long as you have
<><> Java version 1.8 <><> 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 jar 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 <span class="click">use folder names</span> option.
To run as an application, type:
java.exe %JAVA_OPTIONS -ea -jar J:\com\mindprod\sortsrs\sortsrs.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 jar 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.exe -ea -jar com/mindprod/sortsrs/sortsrs.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 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:

SortSRS is a fairly esoteric utility. It is an add-on for Funduc
Search-Replace. It tidies *.srs script files by sorting, deduping and
general tidying. It is only of use to users of the Funduc SR bulk Search
Replace Utility.
It does not handle the *.srx script files used by the more recent SR business edition
which are XML-based.
It is only of use to users of the Funduc SR bulk Search Replace Utility.
Be careful. Sorting a script may it behave differently since SR
applies the search/replaces in the same order they appear in the *.srs
script file. Make a backup before using SortSRS in case sorting makes the
script stop working.
It sorts the search/replace pairs by search string, using a
case-insensitive sort, i.e. interleaving upper and lower case. It also
sorts and deDups the path items.
To convert a script file, type:
java.exe -jar C:\com\mindprod\sortsrs\sortsrs.jar myscript.srs
The results replace the old file, so you had better make a backup just in
case this is not what you want.
You can also list several files on the command line:
java.exe -jar C:\com\mindprod\sortsrs\sortsrs.jar my.srs C:\myscripts\another.srs
DON'T USE WILDCARDS unless you deeply understand how they work. Windows
expands them, not sortsrs, and feeds them to sortsrs (or any other
program) as a giant list of all the directories and files in the current
directory. Sortsrs will thus tend process all the files in your
directories, when you just meant to process the files in the current
directory. Read up on wildcard in the mindprod.com wildcard entry in the
Java glossary.
The -s switch makes all subsequent directories searched recursively to
include all their subdirectories.
e.g.
java.exe -jar C:\com\mindprod\sortsrs\sortsrs.jar -s E:\env\srscripts
will fix all *.srs files in the E:\env\srscripts directory tree, ignoring
other types of files.
If you have the jar extension set up as executable, you can abbreviate:
C:\com\mindprod\sortsrs\sortsrs.jar .
If you have C:\com\mindprod\sortsrs on the path, and have set up PATHEXT
to include jar, then you can abbreviate that to:
sortsrs.jar .
If you have Jet, that abbreviates to
sortsrs.exe .
You can strip out comments from the scripts with:
java.exe -jar C:\com\mindprod\sortsrs\sortsrs.jar -strip -s E:\env\srscripts
Favourites are just mini-scripts containing a single search/replace pair,
also stored as *.srs files, but stored in a different directory. If you
run SortSRS on them, it won't do any harm, and it won't do any good
either. Since the contain only one item, they are already sorted.
However SortSRS will replace missing lead BOMs, an indicator the file is
UTF-8 encoded even on favourites.
If this utility is of use to you, possibly the CSVToSRS utility part of
the mindprod.com CSV suite may also be of interest.
Beware! If you edit *.srs scripts outside of Funduc Search/Replace, or if
you generate them programmatically, and you introduce syntax errors,
e.g. two [Replace] in a row, when you feed them to SR, it will just crash
without any error message. If you are experimenting, keeps lots of
backups and intermediate backups, so you can compare working and
non-working scripts to see the differences.
I wrote this program without documentation of the SRS file format. I just
guessed at it by examining examples and doing experiments. I have
overlooked something, and my program will not handle that feature
correctly. If you suspect something like that has happened, please email
me the offending script so I can fix immediately fix it.

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Version History:

1.0 2011-11-11 initial version

1.1 2011-11-12 more checks for damaged scripts. fix bug that dropped the first [search]

1.2 2011-11-12 deal with scripts that contain [Search or [Replace as literal data, and two types of dup.

1.3 2011-11-14 major refactoring. Sort Paths as well and search/replace items. Handle comments.

1.4 2011-11-16 fix bug when ] in comment. add -strip option

1.5 2012-11-06 fix dedup bug. Was removing lines that differed only in case. Avoid most common false alarm
possible dup.

1.6 2012-11-13 rename to make clear search/replace strings are not trimmed.

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