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Modules:
Cleaner |
Merger | Remover
| Filterer | Keeper
| Sampler
Separator | Seeder | Counter | Splitter | Utilities | Automater
Utilities
The
page Utilities
unites a number of auxiliary list management tasks each
represented by the corresponding processing mode. Just one of
them can be used at a time.
In
each processing mode the result will be stored in the output
file; the input file will remain the same.
Processing modes
The
following processing modes are available here:
Straight Append
Mode: Select this mode if you
need to join two or more files of any structure. As the result
you will have a solid file, but no additional operations like
sorting, de-duping, etc.
Merge/Sort/De-dupe - no
‘Cleaning’: Select this mode if you
need to join two or more files and have the result sorted and
de-duped. Each line of each input file will be regarded as a
separate list item. The listease utility will concatenate the
input files, sort the lines within the resulting file
alphabetically and remove duplicated lines. There will be no
e-mails/IPs/phones/etc. extracting, because it’s the job of
the Cleaner.
Extract
domains/sort/de-dupe: Select this mode if you
need to have domain names extracted from your e-mails list and
then sort and de-dupe the result. Thus, you will have the
sorted list of domains to which the addresses from your input
list belong, for example:
Input
list:
alex@some.net
alex@yahoo.com
info@my-company.com
jbrown@yahoo.com
joe@aol.com
joe@berlin.de
linform@berlin.de
lisa@aol.com
manager@business.info
news@some.net
nick_127@hotmail.com
Processing result:
aol.com
berlin.de
business.info
hotmail.com
my-company.com
some.net
yahoo.com
A
small tip for you: you can use the output file as the input
domains file for the Separator (with the
option “Create separated files for the following domains”) or
the Utility
(processing mode “Generate address file”).
Extract usernames/sort/de-dupe: Similar to the previous but
extracts usernames instead of domains – i. e. the parts of
e-mail addresses before the “@” sign. The resulting list is
then sorted and de-duped, for example:
Input
list:
alex@some.net
alex@yahoo.com
info@my-company.com
jbrown@yahoo.com
joe@aol.com
joe@berlin.de
linform@berlin.de
lisa@aol.com
manager@business.info
news@some.net
nick_127@hotmail.com
Processing result:
alex
info
jbrown
joe
linform
lisa
manager
news
nick_127
A
small tip for you: you can use the output file as the input
usernames file for the Utility (processing
mode “Generate address
file”).
Strip out only these exact
characters: Select this mode if you
need to have some character combination completely removed
from your input file. Indicate any text string as the
parameter and the output file will be a copy of the input file
but all occurrences of the indicated string will be deleted.
Add extension to the
end: Select this mode and
indicate a text string as the parameter, and this text string
will be added to the end of each string of the input file
before placing it into the output file.
Add prefix to the
beginning: Select this mode and
indicate a text string as the parameter, and this text string
will be added to the beginning of each string of the input
file before placing it into the output file.
Replace_…_with
…: Use this processing mode if
you need to quickly perform a very common operation of
replacing all occurrences of one text string in the file with
another text string.
Generate address
file: Use this mode if you have a
list of usernames and a list of domains and need to get a list
of all possible e-mail addresses combining these usernames
with these domains. Please make sure that neither usernames
nor domains contain the sign “@”. It will be added
automatically during the processing.
Example:
Usernames file
lisa
info
smith
Domains file
aol.com
berlin.de
yahoo.com
Processing result
info@aol.com
info@berlin.de
info@yahoo.com
lisa@aol.com
lisa@berlin.de
lisa@yahoo.com
smith@aol.com
smith@berlin.de
smith@yahoo.com
Attention! The number of
lines in the output file will be equal to (the number of
usernames)*(the number of domains). Thus, if you have 2000
usernames and 1000 domains, in the result you will have
2 000 000 combined e-mail addresses. As you see, the
output files can be really large so please make sure that
there is enough free space on your hard drive before using
this feature.
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