Re: Grepping lines.

de John Fitzsimons 02/01/2008 12:56

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:17:07 +1100, "Me.Here"
<my.email@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:

>[OK] John Fitzsimons wrote:

>> 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.

>John, you can try one of the free programmer/text editors and use
>regular expression search function to isolate every item in that list.

Sure, but wouldn't that only give me one item at a time ? That would
be very tedious with a long list.

>The one I use is called SciTE (http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html).
>It's an open source project.

Okay, but I do have a number of text editors already. The problem with
them is as I mention above. Thanks for your help. :-)

Regards, John.