Hi Monks, I am new to Perl (any scripting language as a matter of fact), and I need your help with the following. I need to search a text file (lengthy files, with many pages, they are in RTF format). I want to do the following: search for a certain word, or combination of words, for example, "North Korea". Each of this hits I want to record as a line in Excel file, with the following columns: 1st column: 25 characters before and after "North Korea", 2nd column: Line where it is found, 3rd column: Word position on that line. I would also ideally like to search for multiple keywords, for example, "North", "South", and "Korea". Then the output will have the 4th column in the Excel file that specifies which of the keywords was found. Any help with this will be greatly appreciated! Thanks! GM

In reply to Search a text file for a keyword, and create Excel file output by hyu968

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