That nifty utility sounds like an early, buggy, limited version of SED, the stream editor.
I am a big fan of SED. Available for Linux, Windoze, and probably for OSX. The learning curve is steep, but the power is amazing, and as far as I know, the file of swap rules can get bigger than you will ever need. Sent from my Kyocera Rise Gregg Eshelman <g_ala...@yahoo.com> wrote: >--- On Sun, 5/12/13, Rafael Skodlar <ra...@linwin.com> wrote: > >> > It can be used as one, certainly, but then so can >> Postscript. >> > >> >> By that logic, we would program web sites code in assembler. >> But then >> millions use inches and feet even when they tweet ... > >You can also do crazy things such as writing an HTML document completely in >UTF-8 codes, they're &# followed by 4 digits and a ; Leading zeros can be left >out. > >7 characters to encode 1, and for any character in English and several other >languages, completely pointless when extended ASCII contains all the required >characters, including left and right single and double quotes. > >That brings up a nifty utility I had someone create, it's a text string >swapper. The input is simple, just a text file with pairs of lines. The >program has a user interface to enter the swaps but it's easier to write the >input file in a text editor. > >The contents of the first line will be swapped with the contents of the >second, third with fourth etc. > >I used it for 'cleaning' HTML prior to converting ebooks and other documents >to read on a Palm LifeDrive because Palm OS doesn't support unicode. (Palm OS >5 was new enough it should have had Unicode!) > >It could be useful for doing extremely fast, multiple swaps on any type of >text file. Sure you can do find and replace all in Word and other text editing >software, but just one at a time. This utility can do many swaps in a single >pass. > >For example you want to change all instances of G0 to G00 *and* all instances >of 1002 1005 to 1002-1006 (including the space between) *and* all instances of >meep with Beep, this can do it. > >However it does have a bit of a bug. The number of swap pairs it can handle is >limited. Try to do too many and it'll bugger up both the file you're working >on and the swap pairs input file. I tried to make a universal UTF-8 code to >ASCII input file and it choked on it. > >I do have the source code and compiled versions if anyone wants them to tinker >with and possibly fix the bug. It was written in (IIRC) Visual C 2005 - some >part of Microsoft's 2005 programming suite. It works perfectly fine as long as >it's not pushed past its limit. ;) > >I didn't experiment to find out the maximum number of swap pairs before it >goes gaga. Since I didn't write it, I've no idea where to look for the bug or >what'd be causing it. The author did it for free, got the essential >functionality working. Good enough! > >On the expanded functionality wishlist is the ability to load different swap >lists for different uses. As it is, it just reads replacementfile.txt in the >same folder as the executable so to use more than one the user has to keep >other lists elsewhere or rename the one to use. > >It could even be used (if the bug is fixed) for multiple pass encryption and >decryption by using a series of swap lists to re-arrange all the characters. > >If you're interested I can zip up the lot, including replacement lists I made, >and send it to you. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book >"Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and >their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed >leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. >Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
