Re: Grepping lines.

de John Fitzsimons 02/01/2008 12:56

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:01:07 +0000 (UTC), Peter Gordon
<petergo@netspacedelete.net.au> wrote:

>John Fitzsimons <DELETEucwubqf02@sneakemail.com> wrote in
>news:09d2q3hm5tjjkfb08cloc1r2jnkr6c2884@4ax.com:

>> Okay, I have the following list. It is NOT a file. I want to list all
>> the words that contain "i" in. I want to use a windows program.
>> Not DOS, not Unix, etc. What would do that please ?

>> paxton
>> pinite
>> taipei
>> tiepin
>> atone
>> axone
>> epona
>> inapt
>> inept
>> ionia
>> oaten
>> panto
>> patio
>> paton

>> P.S. Most grepping programs are not windows and/or require input from
>> a file, not a paste selection. :-(

>> I feel that this should be able to be done in a text editor but which
>> one ? Notetab would work but I don't want to create/use a script if I
>> can avoid it.

>Vgrep from http://www.english.aionel.net/
>I'l leave the regular expression to you, it could be tricky.
>My first thought was .*i.* but this would not match words starting or
>ending in i.

That appears to need a file as input. Thanks anyway.

Regards, John.