HI Dave-

You ask good questions. Disregard my earlier code because it was using the wrong variable to search with (I think that's correct?)

What I am wanting is to find out how many times the long "exe" strings appear in a file. Then print each result with a name for the string rather than the string itself. Eg:

C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE

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in:

3/15/2004,2:29:31 PM,Security,Success Audit,Object Access ,560,SERVER\
+refterm,SERVER,"Object Open:
     Object Server:    Security
     Object Type:    File
     Object Name:    C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE
     New Handle ID:    548
     Operation ID:    {0,178005108}

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Result:

Name: Explorer  Count: 1

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It seems I was walking down the wrong path and will have to use regex (which I have not yet read about, in all honesty) to search for the exe string within each line of text. The 'crime', 'crimean' issue is not a problem because there are no variants of the strings I'd be counting. There are MANY paragraphs like the one above in the file to be searched.

If you have any ideas what this code might look like feel free to offer it :-) I will learn as much on my own in the meantime!

Regards,

Sam

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Help - Counting text - Associative Array? (I was Annon Monk) by Mr_Lowry
in thread Help - Counting text - Associative Array? by Anonymous Monk

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