Re: Grepping lines.

de Me.Here 02/01/2008 01:40

[OK] John Fitzsimons wrote:
> 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.
>

No, just paste your list into a blank doc and use a search and replace
function. All lines not matching your regex will be left and all lines
matching will be blanked out (or removed). You can even bookmark
(highlight) the lines matched or unmatched if you don't want to remove them.

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