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i could but there are still a number of tags which makes it hard to read and pinpoint what i'm looking for

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Re^3: highlighting match found
by TJPride (Pilgrim) on Dec 17, 2011 at 21:39 UTC
    You could also cheat and make your output file be HTML, which would allow for easy coloring and styling of the text any way you want.

    THIS IS A MATCH!

    <font color="#CC0000"><b>THIS IS A MATCH!</b></font>