# pat-dissertation

Code for Pat's dissertation.

## sorter.rb usage
### Options
sorter.rb takes the following options:

| option          | usage                                              | 
| --------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| -f, --file      | the name of the input file                         |
| -b, --bin-file  | the name of the bin csv file                       |
| -t, --type      | what type of splitting to do, can be "iat" or "pn" |

### Output
sorter.rb will generate two files:
 * [filename]-out.json
 * [filename]-out.csv

Both files contain the same data in json or csv format.

### Type options
The program has two filtering modes:

#### iat
This mode grabs all text from the input file in between `PLOVEOPENING` and `PLOVECLOSING`.
It ignores all text before `PLOVEOPENING` and after `PLOVECLOSING`.
It does not support multiple sections of text.

#### pn
This mode grabs each section of text from the input file in between `Narrative:` and `Signatures:`.
It supports multiple sections from a single input text file.

### Example:
`./sorter.rb --file tester.txt --bin-file bins.csv --type iat`

The above command will run against `tester.txt`, count strings according to `bins.csv`, and process the input text in `iat` mode.
It will create `tester-out.json` and `tester-out.csv` containing the output data.