Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 * Package name : msort Version : 8.4 Upstream Author : William J. Poser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~wjposer/msort.html * License : GPL Description : utility for sorting records in complex ways msort is a program for sorting files in sophisticated ways. It was originally developed for alphabetizing dictionaries of "exotic" languages, for which it has been extensively used, but is useful for many other purposes. msort differs from typical sort utilities in providing greater flexibility in parsing the input into records and identifying key fields and greater control over the sort order. Its main distinctive features are: * Msort can be used as a command-line program or via a graphical user interface that is helpful not only to those who find a complicated command line difficult to deal with but also to those unfamiliar with the finer points of sorting. * Records need not be single lines of text but may be delimited in a number of ways. * Key fields may be selected either by position in the record (counting from the beginning or the end) or by matching a regular expression to a tag. * For each key an arbitrary sort order may be specified. * For each key an effectively unlimited number of multigraphs (sequences of characters to be treated as a single unit for purposes of sorting) of effectively unlimited length may be defined. * In addition to the usual lexicographic and numerical orderings, msort supports sorting by date, time, and string length. * For each key a distinct set of characters may be excluded from consideration when sorting in any combination of initial, final, and medial position in the key field. * Lexicographic keys may be reversed, allowing the construction of reverse dictionaries. * Any or all keys may be optional. For optional keys, the user may specify how records missing the key field should compare to records in which the key field is present. msort understands UTF-8 Unicode. Unicode may be used anywhere that text is entered: in the text to be sorted, in sort order and exclusion definitions, as a field or record separator, or as a field tag. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC7+LqhQui3hP+/EARAvygAJ4wj9WsxYMqmfIgekhRH+TZm44eGwCfTs3u 1KmBwuhy2RsgHqeZ+z2FCvc= =RaI+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]