in reply to Re^4: Regex: Matching around a word(s)
in thread Regex: Matching around a word(s)

Ah! I see what your getting at. You want this (single) output with multiple highlights: 

this finds <and> matches <and> highlights matches.

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So if two matches occur with say 2 x number of context words of each other, amalgamate the adjacent matches + contexts into a single output.

Hmmm. I'll have to thunk on that.

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