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From: »Q« on 29 Mar 2007 12:55
In <news:suan0314960g3edg99ggplf6du4vadtu37(a)4ax.com>,
MitchellWmA <nospammail(a)nonsense.com> wrote:

> After intensive searching found an app to almost do what I need. I'm
> mentioning it only to give an example.
>
> $ware Super Text Search v2.8 will search text files in a folder for
> text strings
> http://www.galcott.com/textsrch.gif
> http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_MAIN.Entry10?xid=22609&PN=1&SP=10023&V1=187027&CID=137331&CUR=124&DSP=&PGRP=0&ABCODE=&CACHE_ID=0
> but it can't find all words beginning with a letter and ending with
> another letter.
>
> i.e., the best it can seem to do is this - when I tested it by asking
> for "s*e" to see if it could find "software" or "smile" or safe" (in
> its own text string search format, of course), it only could return
> things like "she", "see" and "sue". No wildcard that I could find
> could pull up words with more than 1 letter in between the start and
> end.

I'm not familiar with the app you mention, but the screen shot
indicates that it uses regular expressions. There are plenty of
freeware apps which will use them, some mentioned by others in this
thread.

To use regular expressions to find words beginning with s and ending in
e, use

\bs\w*e\b
112333411

1 - matches a word boundary
2 - matches an s
3 - matches 0 or more "word" characters, such as letters
4 - matches e

That won't catch hyphenated words split over more than one line; if
you need to do that, there's a lot more to learn about regular
expressions.

At the bottom of <http://xnews.remarqs.net/score.htm>, I link to what
IMO are the best resources for learning regular expression syntax.




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From: Gert van der Kooij on 29 Mar 2007 15:46
In article <suan0314960g3edg99ggplf6du4vadtu37(a)4ax.com>,
nospammail(a)nonsense.com says...

> So I'm stumped. If anyone knows of something that can do this please
> let me know.
>
> The text string search programs I've tried don't do this. Or if they
> can, they don't display the text easily in a list. They just pull up
> a list of files that you have to open and then hunt around for the
> word(s).
>
> After 2 days looking and looking every spare moment I'm bugging the
> group again. tia :)
>

Did you try Agent Ransack, it looks like it should do what you want.
From: jon on 29 Mar 2007 17:30

�Q� wrote:

> There are plenty of
>freeware apps which will use them, some mentioned by others in this
>thread.
>
>To use regular expressions to find words beginning with s and ending in
>e, use
>
>\bs\w*e\b

Yes - I thought of a text editor; but one that *lists* the returns?

NoteTab Light is interesting. You can load multiple text files and do
a regex search through them all, F3ing to the next return.
No list return option AFAICS.

This works in NoteTab to find words that begin with 's' and end with
'e':

\bs[a-z]*e\b
From: »Q« on 29 Mar 2007 18:39
In <news:b60dbc7bca476a1d1434fa911212ec1fnp(a)mcdaddums.3>,
jon <mcdaddums3(a)hhotmail.ccom.invalid> wrote:

> >To use regular expressions to find words beginning with s and ending
> >in e, use
> >
> >\bs\w*e\b
>
> Yes - I thought of a text editor; but one that *lists* the returns?

I'd just use grep (under cygwin if on a Windows machine). There's also
"grep for Windows", <http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm>.

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From: jmatt on 29 Mar 2007 19:27
On Mar 29, 11:41 pm, "MitchellWMA" <mitchellw...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

> Guess I didn't explain well.

Ok, got it now, here is another to look at.

XWord2
http://www.geocities.com/g.mckenzie/XWord2/xword2.htm




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