Re: Re: (How) can I use regex patterns to find matching lines in a textfile?

husoft, but "word-to-find" can't contain metacharacters like in the example I posted first, can it? Ritter

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Re: Re: Re: (How) can I use regex patterns to find matching lines in a textfile? by husoft (Monk) on Nov 20, 2002 at 12:40 UTC
You have to type only the word you want to find. If you want to be able to make it like the example you posted (with metachars). then replace `/$ARGV[1]/` for `eval($ARGV[1])`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: Re: (How) can I use regex patterns to find matching lines in a textfile? by Ritter (Sexton) on Nov 20, 2002 at 12:56 UTC
Just wonderful! thank you so much! and you too John your way works too! so happy! Ritter	[reply]